rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
a thesis around plays + theatre in a digital world
plays are one of the last forms of media that resist digitization -- not by accident, but by design. a play doesn’t scale. it doesn’t go viral (well, not the real thing. the idea of a play can spread. its songs, its brand, its aesthetics. but the core experience - the presence, the silence, the un... See more
brand strategy and
frightening how many of our wounds come from trying to be less than we are
-river kenna
Moloch and
The bullshit industrial complex is a pyramid of groups that goes something like this:
Group 1 : People actually shipping ideas, launching businesses, doing creative work, taking risks and sharing first-hand learnings.
Group 2 : People writing about group 1 in clear, concise, accessible language.
[And here rests the line of bullshit demarcation...]
Grou... See more
Group 1 : People actually shipping ideas, launching businesses, doing creative work, taking risks and sharing first-hand learnings.
Group 2 : People writing about group 1 in clear, concise, accessible language.
[And here rests the line of bullshit demarcation...]
Grou... See more
Blog :: The Creative World’s Bullshit IndustrialComplex
well-arranged words rearrange reality.
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
there's this feeling which is the opposite of audience capture - this feeling when you find a group of people who give you permission to be more and more illegible and spontaneous
i love that feeling
“I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good. Perfection is a mathematical or divine concept, goodness is a beautiful human concept that includes us all.”
-Richard Rohr
Operating under an illness model of care doesn’t just carry powerful implications for the way we conceptualize perfectionism, it impacts the way we conceptualize every aspect of mental health. The slightest pang of sadness, a drizzle of frustration—we register any decline in positive emotion with an assumption of pathology. It’s a cultural tic. The
... See moreKatherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
– Jean-Luc Godard
self trust and
conversations are coordination games but with social capital. if neither person is willing to risk any status loss by showing their cards, you end up in an awkward small talk deadlock that's most always worse for both parties