rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. always in pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
God, grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
And wisdom to know the differenceprayers and
Caught in a contradiction, playing both despot and revolutionary, artist and critic, “straight man” and clown, the manifesto writer must persevere. The secret to this perseverance is drama. The theater of the absurd. You build a little self-contained world and invite the audience in. Describe this world in detail. Don’t be afraid to make it enterta
... See morefrom The Manifesto Handbook by Julian Hanna
manifesto craft and
- If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag everythin... See more
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aliveness and
Paradoxically, the people who trust themselves the most are usually the people who have betrayed themselves the most profoundly, but then made the decision to walk themselves home—inch by inch—to their authentic selves.
from The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
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
... See morefrom The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
self renewal and
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
The Forest and
- “Gnosis should be an experience of your own life, a plant grown on your own tree. Foreign gods are a sweet poison, but vegetable gods you have raised in your own garden are nourishing. They are perhaps less beautiful but they have stronger medicine.” Carl Jung
self renewal and