rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
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Thankfully humans have invented a whole infrastructure for nemeses to cooperate - we call it contract law. Contracts make it possible for enemies to interact in a predictable, rule-based way, where the representations and commitments of each party in a contract are enforced by powerful institutions.
Baz • You should design trust infrastructure
“Let us expand, live much, and be many things, and
not shirk the complexity of the world or of ourselves.”
— Julian Jaynes
not shirk the complexity of the world or of ourselves.”
— Julian Jaynes
Dylano | Essayful • Tweet
“People listen better if they feel that you have understood them. They tend to think that those who understand them are intelligent and sympathetic people whose own opinions may be worth listening to. So if you want the other side to appreciate your interests, begin by demonstrating that you appreciate theirs.”
― Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes:
... See moreKen Wilber talks about how we can't think our way to the next level of development - we have to live our way there.
This explains why I can understand concepts intellectually for years before they actually transform how I operate in the world.
Knowing isn't the same as being. Integration requires embodiment, not just comprehension.
This explains why I can understand concepts intellectually for years before they actually transform how I operate in the world.
Knowing isn't the same as being. Integration requires embodiment, not just comprehension.
Su • Tweet
trust infrastructure is perhaps our only answer to creating an expressive and liberal internet that achieves the same goals of illiberal social credit systems without creating a Google Internet Corp. that controls the entire web.
Baz • You should design trust infrastructure
Knowledge isn’t transferred; it’s born through the dialogue itself. The teacher becomes not an authority delivering pre-packaged wisdom but a partner in bringing forth what was somehow already there, unrecognized.
A Philosophy of Conversation
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