rob hardy

You can’t try to resonate. Ultimately, resonance is beyond us. Like happiness, it can’t be a goal.

Old paradigms die hard. Puking, sweating, convulsing every vestige of What No Longer Works into a heaping pile of shitty compost that will eventually grow something new and beautiful, but not until you’re scraped raw of every notion of what that might be.

The goal isn’t money; the goal is to live a thrilling adventure that you’re going to enjoy anyway, and potentially get rich accidentally during the process.

Demons must be named to be defeated, just as our deepest and most vile urges or emotions must be acknowledged to be integrated

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best practices are rarely the best — they're mostly just cargo cult common practices.

And as more people adopt them, the more mediocre they become.

The best is usually what most people aren't willing to do.

The simple individualistic humanist frame treats the person as the seat of agency, the atomic unit of moral responsibility and choice-making.

I want you to see the limits of this model. Agency exists at micro- and macro-scales, the “person” is just one step on the ladder.