rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
You don’t ever have to chase magic. You just have to slow down and become present enough for it to reveal itself to you.
مريم Řسنا • Tweet
resonance and
It’s not that I know how to do this. It’s that my soul is guiding me through this.
—life mantra
—life mantra
McCall Erickson on Substack
recovery and
"The truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and adorned, and after long use seem solid, canonical, and binding to a nation. Truths are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions."
- Friedrich... See more
- Friedrich... See more
Alex Kennedy • Tweet
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
-Margaret Mead
Quotes and self renewal
Healing is a hard-core acceptance of what is…often after a million failed attempts at trying to get it to be something else.
McCall Ericksonsubstack.comLana, Taylor and anti-institutional realignment
Recently, I watched the Grammys and learned more about Lana Del Rey. I had no idea she was friendly with Taylor Swift, or that she and Taylor shared the same producer. These women have been pop stars for over a decade: Taylor the establishment good girl; Lana, the anti-establishment shock and awe... See more
Recently, I watched the Grammys and learned more about Lana Del Rey. I had no idea she was friendly with Taylor Swift, or that she and Taylor shared the same producer. These women have been pop stars for over a decade: Taylor the establishment good girl; Lana, the anti-establishment shock and awe... See more
Katherine Boyle • Tweet
Politics and
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
The most effective way I've found to use Claude to get better at writing:
Paste in a bunch of chapters or articles.
It can accept ~350 pages of input, so go crazy.
Ask it which chapter or article is the best and to explain why it's the best.
Keep asking follow up questions and build a list of all the reasons it's strong. Feel free to add your own.... See more
Paste in a bunch of chapters or articles.
It can accept ~350 pages of input, so go crazy.
Ask it which chapter or article is the best and to explain why it's the best.
Keep asking follow up questions and build a list of all the reasons it's strong. Feel free to add your own.... See more