rob hardy

you may not be able to escape audience capture, but you can at least curate your audience so that you become captured in a way that's beneficial to you

I've found that my clients' discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery, and a meaningful engagement with the world.

- Bill Plotkin

“Charging too little is like eating soup with a fork: you’re always busy but always hungry!”

Three signs you’re scared of feeling joy:

1 You think you have to earn it

2 You focus on what could go wrong rather than right

3 You constantly feel like the other shoe is going to drop

Jung understood that the psyche isn't a mechanism that can be dismantled and studied piece by piece. It's a living reality that responds to being observed, that shifts and transforms under examination, that contains paradoxes and contradictions that defy statistical capture.

Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:

1. We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.


2. We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed

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On your deathbed, you won't wish you had argued more on Twitter. But you will wish you had written more manifestos staking out bold positions and claims to good faith audiences.