rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
In a memetic war, you’re much less a soldier than you are a battleground.
Emmett Shear • Tweet
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
Θωμᾶς del Vasto • Tweet
"The ‘wear them down with pressure and scarcity tactics’ approach to sales and marketing is only relevant if you are trying to undermine people’s ability to make decisions for themselves." - Megan Macedo
If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself.
The lesson is simply: speak up .
It's OK to slip into advocacy now and then, so long as you do it tastefully. If it sounds high- or heavy-handed — or anything like nagging — you're doing it wrong. Just explain why you care about a particular value. The goal... See more
The lesson is simply: speak up .
It's OK to slip into advocacy now and then, so long as you do it tastefully. If it sounds high- or heavy-handed — or anything like nagging — you're doing it wrong. Just explain why you care about a particular value. The goal... See more
Kevin Simler • Here Be Sermons | Melting Asphalt
When we mistake spreading ideas for taking real action, we overlook a crucial asymmetry: ideas and actions distribute their consequences wildly differently across time and space.
A stupid idea—one that seduces with utopian dreams—can viralize for months or years, infiltrating millions of minds long before it ever collides with reality through... See more
A stupid idea—one that seduces with utopian dreams—can viralize for months or years, infiltrating millions of minds long before it ever collides with reality through... See more
Matthew Pirkowski • Tweet
Politics and
for hiring anyone who remotely touches strategy you should prioritize people who actually get culture, society, & human nuance.
strategy at its core is applied anthropology. if the person can’t decode vibes, trace behavior, & see how a tiktok dance, a local election, & a subway ad are all part of the same current, then they’re just kinda doing an... See more
strategy at its core is applied anthropology. if the person can’t decode vibes, trace behavior, & see how a tiktok dance, a local election, & a subway ad are all part of the same current, then they’re just kinda doing an... See more
signüll • Tweet
Resonance is that feeling of alignment that happens when something matches who you really are. It's not just in your head—it's a full-body "yes" that tells you something fits.
