rob hardy

You are only as good as your ability to test your riskiest assumptions as quickly as possible.

People who trust themselves trust themselves because they’re honest with themselves. More specifically, they’re honest about what they need to restrict themselves from or altogether avoid. We think that the more we trust ourselves, the fewer boundaries we’ll need; the opposite is true. The people who trust themselves the most are the ones who honor

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Donald Trump is an uncannily accommodating vessel for projection, good and ill. It occurs as something of a cosmic joke that his last name is “Trump,” which is the Joker in a deck of cards, a wild card, the card that can be any card. So it is that Donald Trump can be any character, whatever people hold him to be. This serves both to elevate him and... See more

The more defensive you are about a belief you have, the more likely that that belief is standing in the way of your freedom.

Great works are unsettling, disorienting, they confound our expectations. In this definition, it’s almost impossible for a great work to be considered ‘refined’ at the time of its creation, because its elements are alien, they have not yet had time to have been weighed and evaluated.

Reality is that which does not go away when you start a private group chat disagreeing with it

we are suffering from an epidemic of "cocktail party thought". a huge part of our country can only conceptualize the world through nice little facts and counterintuitive gotchas. they view the world like its all one big atlantic article. not a big mess of blood, flesh, and souls