rob hardy

Successful platforms do not just discover what consumers want — they produce the consumers and the forms of consumer desire that they need.

I do not require ideal conditions to do exceptional work

the root cause of most of our problems is that people can tell who is more competent than them but are threatened by this instead of trying to learn from them & lifting them up

"It is not enough for a man to feel the divine flame burning in him; unless he goes into the concentrated, slogging business of learning the techniques of expression, his genius will be of no use to anyone." —Oswald Chambers

It would sure make things easy if this election were a simple contest of good versus evil. But this is the way of thinking that is tearing the world apart. Those who think that way always consider themselves to be members of Team Good, of course. If your opponent is evil incarnate, then any means to stop him are justified.

I've become fully convinced that the only way out of the doom loop is that people have to become absolutely obsessed with an idea that they think can realistically move the needle in a positive direction and they have to be borderline insane in their drive to make it happen