rob hardy

@robhardy

writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱

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Religion is a particularly scalable form of culture, which was arguably the thing thatmade it possible to interact and transact with (i.e. trust) other people far beyond your local community. When you can presuppose that a stranger shares your basic understanding of the world and a foundational moral code, trust is much easier.

Baz • You should design trust infrastructure

trust

"The ‘wear them down with pressure and scarcity tactics’ approach to sales and marketing is only relevant if you are trying to undermine people’s ability to make decisions for themselves." - Megan Macedo

trust and non-coercive marketing

This line from David Foster Wallace still haunts me:

“The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say, “What’s wrong?” You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, “What do you mean?” You say, “Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it?”

And he’ll

Tommy Dixon on Substack

what even is perfectionism?? and

conversations are coordination games but with social capital. if neither person is willing to risk any status loss by showing their cards, you end up in an awkward small talk deadlock that's most always worse for both parties

Kamal Sabran • Orpheas on Substack

conversational creativity and

Often our first thought bears the most resonant truth. It is all that comes after that talks us out of what we know.

Lauren • Tweet

resonance

"The truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and adorned, and after long use seem solid, canonical, and binding to a nation. Truths are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions."

- Friedrich... See more

Alex Kennedy • Tweet

Quotes and truth

the last line in many respects is the essence of the poet’s work, to work with the questions ‘that have no right to go away’ in the life of an individual, in the life of a relationship or marriage, and in our collective conversations in an increasingly fraught, worldwide society.

David Whyte • David Whyte

conversational creativity

God, grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
And wisdom to know the difference

prayers and