rob hardy

@ungated.life

writer of manifestos, petter of cats.

i got so much joy from playing hacky sack with homies all through my high school years feeling the pull to start hacking the sack again

you can just do things (leave your phone inside while you sit out on the balcony drinking coffee and reading fiction on sunday morning while your cat watches birds)

you can just do things (rebound from a very difficult day where you shame spiraled into a bunch of unhealthy choices, but today you're being gentle and compassionate and doing a bunch of good shit to take care of yourself)

the poster child for enshittification has to be the "gas buddy" app. remember using it like 10 years ago and being like "wow this is so simple and useful!" downloaded it again this week cuz there are very few diesel stations near me, and holy fuck you guys it's so bad

told my mexican friend that i love beans and keep a 15 pound bag of pinto beans in my pantry and he said that makes me an honorary brown person

you can just do things (subtly skewer silicon valley's obsession with "agency" by pointing out small, seemingly trivial activities you can do that are rich with the very marrow of life if you pay close enough attention)

you can just do things (write out your favorite poem by hand, speak it out loud, memorize it completely, let it take root in the depths of you)

"meaning-shaped attention vampires that take mental effort to decode and give you no equivalent understanding in return" is a fucking great description of how ai writing feels to me if i get even a faint whiff of text being ai, i immediately stop reading

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you can just do things (dial it back on the sriracha usage, because you've been eating a ton of it lately and you're pretty sure that's why your tummy hurts)

increasingly more interested in having wondrous encounters with life instead of classifying it and closing it down into tidy little concepts so i can feel some semblance of control

truth, beauty, and goodness cannot be accounted for in a spreadsheet, and i think this explains a great deal about the modern world