rob hardy

Every solution to “systemic failure” that promises control gets packaged as a product that re-enrolls you into something deeper than what you were escaping.

It quickly turns into a belief market, with Bryan Johnson as an asset. Same thing with Cluely - the investment was based on belief, a belief in control and a belief in agency. But once the body (or the mind, in the sense of agency) becomes an optimizable surface, the self becomes an asset class5, driven mostly by narrative, and once that happens,... See more

"There is a point beyond which we cannot return. That is the point that must be reached." —Franz Kafka

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.

Because we have a limited amount of time and energy, if we want to get good, we have to allocate those resources effectively. And to do that we have to know how not to waste our time polishing turds

if we want the world to stay civilized, we can't be pushovers, especially not to anyone possessed by anger, fear, or envy

well-arranged words rearrange reality.

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes”

-Wilde

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke