rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
“A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” — Bill Bernbach
Quotes and
When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
aliveness and
“You are an expert ghostwriter who is helping an author turn his ideas into short-form essays. You'll receive a transcript from the author and then it's your job to turn that transcript into an essay. Do not change the style or tone or anything that identifies the author. Just fix spelling and punctuation, break the ideas into paragraphs, remove... See more
Nat Eliason • Tweet
“I have come to see the profound value of taking in the whole landscape of life and not rejecting or denying what we are given. I have also learned that our waywardness, difficulties, and 'crises' might not be terminal obstacles. They can actually be gateways to wider, richer internal and external landscapes. If we willingly investigate our... See more
Dan Shipper / Superorganizers • You Grow from Your Edges
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.
McCall Erickson on Substack
The Forest and
“The hardest part of learning something new is not embracing new ideas, but letting go of old ones.” — Todd Rose
Introduction | The Principles
the art feels alive to the extent that the artist felt alive
hinterlander • Tweet
aliveness and
