rob hardy

“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say,... See more

a deep generalist is someone who discovers new niches by following their curiosity with extreme faith, and once the newly found niche is understood and its complexity exhausted, in a meta-systematic fashion, it’s time for them to move on

Resonance is being in flow state but with another person.

To find resonance, you need to create. Creation is an act of tapping a tuning fork and seeing who resonates. Creation is the risk. Resonance is the reward.

your life will get easier when you accept evil is a real force in the world thats embodied in humans that exist purely to move your soul away from the pure good and eternal. pretending otherwise is a sheltered and silly idea

It's strange how much humility it takes to stop hating yourself. 'I am the cause of every problem in my life' is a grandiose belief just like any other. The fall from (dis)grace hits every bit as hard.

I think the key to posting online / being seen online is not feeling responsible for anyone who’s not caught up on your lore. You won’t be able to stop and explain yourself to everybody and catch them up on all that you’ve been cooking and pulling from over decades and you gotta let it go. The bigger you get, the more you’ll find total randoms... See more

story is the most powerful force in the universe

it can topple entire nations without a drop of spilled blood

In a broader sense, we are realizing in the modern area that strict rationality on it's own is not enough to hold our societies and cultures together. However, pure chaos obviously does not work either. We need a dialectic between order and chaos, form and emptiness, structure and flexibility, that allows us to gain the benefits of modernity while... See more