rob hardy

@robhardy

writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱

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Salmon don’t have a cosmic story that they talk about. They are born into the world and they instinctively know the direction in which they need to swim. It’s built into their DNA, inherent in their being. People, on the other hand, need stories that are created and expressed through culture in order for us to find our way forward.

Phoebe Tickell • New Deep Narratives: We Need New Stories of What It Means to Be Human

culture and storytelling & the human soul

An interesting observation in Maslow's work on self-actualized people is that they tend to be less "introspective" than others. Meaning they spend less time thinking about themselves and their feelings. But they are more attuned to their inner compass when *acting on the world*.

Henrik Karlsson • Tweet

relationship with self and

Atlas Press • Tweet

everything is a conversation

Agnes Callard • Tweet

everything is a conversation and conversational creativity

"We forget most of our past but embody all of it." — John Updike

relationship with self and self renewal

Carol Sanford explained how essence is essential to companies, communities, and countries:

Essence can provide the foundation of a business and its offerings if it sources the unique and differentiated nature of who it is. Essence has been there since the company’s founding, but often recedes from its rightful role

Essence is unique to each company

Ari's Top 5—An Exploration of Essence

brand manifesto and brand strategy

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... See more

Create things that come alive

aliveness and

“But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”

-Haruki Murakami

Poetic Outlaws • Tweet

manifestory and

Human beings are always, and always will be, a frontier between what is known and what is not known. The act of turning any part of the unknown into the known is simply an invitation for an equal measure of the unknown to flow in and re-establish that frontier: to reassert the far inward, as yet unknown horizon of an individual life; to make us

David Whyte • Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

aliveness and self renewal