rob hardy

I remember when marijuana was medically legalized in Los Angeles. I would see massive lines out the door of dispensaries in my neighborhood. Looking at everyone waiting for their kush, I’d ask myself, “Are all these people really here for ‘medical’ usage? This feels more like legalizing mass addiction to cope with depression, anxiety and god knows... See more

if you don’t have a very specific enemy in your sights, you’re no where close to finding product market fit or growth.

bootstrapped = enemy must be company.

funded = enemy must be idea.

Life cannot be made to conform to a system, it cannot be forced into a framework, however nobly conceived; and a mind that has merely been trained in factual knowledge is incapable of meeting life with its variety, its subtlety, its depths and great heights.

— Krishnamurti

the most transformative dialogues often feature exploration rather than predetermined outcomes. We don’t know what we want, and we use conversation to get closer to articulating our desire. Some conversations are infinite, like games for their own sake.

if you're trying to slay Moloch in any realm other than the territory of the human heart, you're gonna fail over, and over

you might fail in interesting and scintillating ways -- but you're gonna fail