rob hardy

“The hardest part of learning something new is not embracing new ideas, but letting go of old ones.” — Todd Rose

most companies see their potential customers as weak, naive, and prone to addiction.

what would the world look like if companies spoke to our highest values rather than looking to make a quick profit off our base instincts...

I first wrote about Breach in 2020, and again in my book. It’s the idea that the internet has become our externalised collective unconscious, capturing and then amplifying a swirling ocean of our projections, hopes, fantasies, and violent urges. Some of these become archetypal, turning into myths and memes that evolve to take on a life of their own... See more

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

It’s common for addicts to realize that it’s addiction all the way down. While some of us have had more “extreme” addictions, all of us have been captured by a recurring false possibility that a certain solution will ease our pain, only to make our problems and pain worse.

It’s baffling how susceptible we are to this progressive, possibility-narrow... See more

“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 an... See more

I believe an essay is the most flexible written medium, and it calls for a fusion of genres: the soul of a memoirist, the pen of a poet, and the rigor of an academic. By learning to shape a thesis, your essays will become more than gripping stories with beautiful sentences, they will help you and your reader make sense of the world.