rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
one of the hardest habits i've had to un-learn as a writer is the desire to head off any counterargument i can see coming -- it's hard for me to write something knowing it will be misunderstood by some people, but that preventing it will water down the writing
Writing and
The single best advice I ever got on conversation is “ask questions the other person will enjoy answering” which sounds insultingly obvious, but almost nobody does it, and it instantly makes conversations vastly more fun.
Henry Shevlin • Tweet
Collecting losses, and becoming a connoisseur of catastrophe, won’t help you get a win next time around.
Jason Fried • Tweet
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”
The On Being Project • Living the Questions
"Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am."
—Parker Palmer, from "Let Your Life Speak"
memes and
“Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.”
Ken Wilber
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”
―Oscar Ameringer
―Oscar Ameringer
Gurwinder • Gurwinder (@gurwinder)
Healing as the process of slowly becoming a normie from first principles.