rob hardy

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

Universities claim to promote social mobility but inadvertently perpetuate social hierarchies, whereas the military is an explicit hierarchy that inadvertently promotes social mobility.

my impression of the individuation process is that we all know, at some level, what we need to do... we sense the truths we need to face & the actions we need to take

but it’s a lot of work & suffering and so we spend years trying to negotiate our way out of it. “must I really do this? must I?”

“surely there’s a hack and a shortcut... surely there’s... See more

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

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... See more

The price of aliveness is letting go of distraction, avoidance, numbness, and checking out of life