rob hardy

I think you can reduce 80 percent of culture wars to questions of economics—like a libertarian or a Marxist would—and then you can reduce maybe 80 percent of economic questions to questions of real estate.

opportunity is around you, not above you.

talk to new people, even if you don’t know their name, truly talk to them, give them a chance to enter your life. you might be standing next to someone who will change the course of your next year, or someone who just needed one kind word to believe in themselves again.

Great code can’t save a story no one understands.

Algorithms can locate attention, but only humans can earn it.

the era of the Agenda having authority over thriving, successful individuals is over. people are starting to think for themselves again, and whenever they do so out in public (like sydney did here), swaths of people behind the scenes who have felt trapped by the Agenda cheer and feel more and more free. this will continue. and the ideologically... See more

In a broader sense, we are realizing in the modern area that strict rationality on it's own is not enough to hold our societies and cultures together. However, pure chaos obviously does not work either. We need a dialectic between order and chaos, form and emptiness, structure and flexibility, that allows us to gain the benefits of modernity while... See more

Dostoevsky, unlike most other authors, treats his characters as full individuals, as if they are too big to fit in his head: he isn’t using them as mouth pieces but is listening to them. His books are polyphonic: they are made up of a multitude of voices, each with their own inner logic and perspective, and there is no voice that stands above the... See more

Never underestimate how much people just want to be on a winning team.