rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
This is how to tell a success story: Rather than telling a story of your full and complete accomplishment, tell the story of a small part of the success. Tell about a small step. Feel free to allude to the better days that may lie ahead, but don’t try to tell everything. Small steps only.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
"Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change." -Rob Brezsny
Quotes and self renewal
“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
Tara Skurtu • Tweet
Relationships and Quotes
"Your worst sin is that you've destroyed and betrayed yourself for the Algorithm."
- Dostoevsky, 2024
- Dostoevsky, 2024
charlie ️ • Tweet
The Forest and
I really like this Emerson riff: as long as you’re under the illusion that someone is the absolute and solitary progenitor of an idea, you cannot properly appreciate either the person or the idea
Remember that to always be rebelling against a thing is still to be controlled by it.
Amanda Fortini • Tweet
manifesto craft and
In 1909 the Futurists refused reverence and predicted, even begged for their overthrow by the next generation: “Younger and stronger men will throw us in the wastebasket like useless manuscripts,” they cried. “We want it to happen!” Like all good manifestos, they built in their own obsolescence, clearing the way for the next vision of the future.