rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
Sublime is an ethos-driven company.
Here is what we believe:
Intention > Attention
The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make sustained progress on anything worthwhile.
You don’t need to go live in a cabin or swear off Netflix. You just have to live more deliberately.
We are entering the post-information age. The barrier is no
Kurt Vonnegut on picking a lane:
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way—although I would not be sorry if you wrote one,... See more
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way—although I would not be sorry if you wrote one,... See more
Buttondown • Tweet
Almost no prerequisite to any major invention was invented with that invention in mind.
Joel Lehman • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people
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We’ve seen how both the web2 internet and early iterations of web3 fall short of ensuring a free, fair playing field that benefits the least advantaged. So what would an internet that meets Rawls’ standards look like? Some general anti-principles start to come into focus:- Don’t build a system that only benefits the wealthy, because what if you’re... See more
Katie Parrott • A Theory of Justice for Web3
Trust is a matter of reciprocal relationships, not of prediction, risk, and reliance.