rob hardy

@robhardy

writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱

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my working definition of perfectionism is that it's the pathological need to be perceived as both special and exceptional, because you learned that love and acceptance are conditional on being perceived that way

what even is perfectionism??

Once, we made sense of the world with sweeping narratives that provided a comforting sense of mastery. Now, with those narratives shattered beyond repair by a reality too complex for us to fathom, a new kind of coping mechanism is emerging—one where we make peace with the limits of our agency rather than pretending to overcome them. The task is no... See more

Games of Chance – ZORA ZINE

from war to acceptance and

“All I ever wanted in life was to make a difference, be worshiped like a god, conquer the universe, travel the world, meet interesting people, find the missing link, fight the good fight, live for the moment, seize each day, make a fortune, know what really matters, end world hunger, vanquish the dragon, be super popular but too cool to care, be

Rob Brezsny • Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia

self renewal

"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does."

~Terence McKenna

Jim O'Shaughnessy • Tweet

truth vs bullshit and

Only dead things are certain. Everything that is alive dances in different degrees of uncertainty.

self renewal and

from laura cincera on twitter - tweet

a company is an egregore (the shared mind between the humans who make it). A country is an egregore. A small town is an egregore. A friend group is an egregore.

You can do experiments on your friend group, find patterns, then see if they hold across other scales

Defender • Tweet

The Forest and

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

trust

Great conversations give us this gift: we receive more than we sought.

We find ourselves saying things we didn't know we knew, wanting things we didn’t know we wanted, becoming someone we didn’t yet know we could be. The path matters because the path changes us, and in changing us, it changes where we can go next.

A Philosophy of Conversation

conversational creativity and

"The words you speak become the house you live in"

conversational creativity and