rob hardy

the best relationships consist of a series of unbreachable private understandings

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

-- W.B. Yeats

Excellence emerges from intimacy with imperfection

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.

we cut the world into pieces with words, distinctions, categories. analogy and metaphor sews things back together, reminds us of the inherent sameness of everything

Every conversation has multiple layers. Some people hide behind masks. Others lie to others (and themselves). And others say one thing with their mouth and another with their body. It only takes seeing through one of these layers for somebody to call you a genius.

“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, 1873

Science is the systematic investigation of open questions. ScienceTM is the institutional authority certifying definitive answers.