rob hardy

@robhardy

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

ungated.life

Caught in a contradiction, playing both despot and revolutionary, artist and critic, “straight man” and clown, the manifesto writer must persevere. The secret to this perseverance is drama. The theater of the absurd. You build a little self-contained world and invite the audience in. Describe this world in detail. Don’t be afraid to make it enterta
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from The Manifesto Handbook by Julian Hanna
manifesto craft and
If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag everythin... See more
from Create things that come alive
aliveness and
Paradoxically, the people who trust themselves the most are usually the people who have betrayed themselves the most profoundly, but then made the decision to walk themselves home—inch by inch—to their authentic selves.
from The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
earning self-respect and
People who trust themselves trust themselves because they’re honest with themselves. More specifically, they’re honest about what they need to restrict themselves from or altogether avoid. We think that the more we trust ourselves, the fewer boundaries we’ll need; the opposite is true. The people who trust themselves the most are the ones who honor
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from The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
self renewal and
I do not require ideal conditions to do exceptional work
from Tweet by Ryan Mather
manifestos and principles and
A key rule of theatre is that the King is never played by the actor playing the King, but by all the other actors around him.
from Tweet by Anna Gát
Human beings are always, and always will be, a frontier between what is known and what is not known. The act of turning any part of the unknown into the known is simply an invitation for an equal measure of the unknown to flow in and re-establish that frontier: to reassert the far inward, as yet unknown horizon of an individual life; to make us wha
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from Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte
aliveness and self renewal
“All I ever wanted in life was to make a difference, be worshiped like a god, conquer the universe, travel the world, meet interesting people, find the missing link, fight the good fight, live for the moment, seize each day, make a fortune, know what really matters, end world hunger, vanquish the dragon, be super popular but too cool to care, be ma
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from Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia by Rob Brezsny
self renewal
I believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies—not from the pathologies themselves. But so many people think it’s the other way around. For this reason, you will often meet artists who deliberately cling to their suffering, their addictions, their fears, their demons. They worry that if they ever l
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from Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Perfectionism is not a pathology and

from The Manifesto Handbook by Julian Hanna

from Create things that come alive

from The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler

from The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler

from Tweet by Ryan Mather

from Tweet by Anna Gát

from Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte

from Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia by Rob Brezsny

from Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert