rob (15/100 manifestos)
@robhardy.eth
writer of manifestos, petter of cats.
in pursuit of the stories that bring us back to life @ manifesto.quest
thesis i'm about to fuck with:
if i publish my best writing as a high-quality physical artifact, and keep it entirely off the internet (no pdfs or digital versions at all), it will feel substantially more valuable for readers, and create far more economic value for me
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ok i think i finally dialed in my hypothesis around manifestos and why they matter so much as a genre of writing
how does this land with y'all?
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today i wrote about how i spent a decade trying to make my art pay the bills, and how it didn't really work, and how i'm slowly learning to meet my needs for BOTH financial security and creative fulfillment
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so uh, i wrote a cool manifesto for a startup called lightpage, and in the process discovered a daily creative practice that softens my perfectionism and also decided to revamp my personal writing??
a lot going on in this one, but feels like the birth of something rad 🦋
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"this reads like it was written by someone who’s walked through fire barefoot and came out holding a bowl of soup."
-chatgpt, upon reading my latest personal manifesto
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the story you tell about a product, and the culture you build around that story, matters far more than the product itself
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have been reading a shit ton of john steinbeck's novellas of late, and because i'm me, i found a way to connect this to writing manifestos lmao
may i present to you, Of Mice and Manifestos
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"The way the world gets healed now is not by getting a good idea that everybody agrees with, not by having a summit that solve the problems, but having more people awakening to who they are and learning how to give what they have come into the world to give."
- Michael Meade
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y’all i’ve spent this month cooking up a new brand manifesto, and i’m legit excited about it. been awhile since i've felt this energized by a writing gig
it’s for an app called lightpage, which is kinda like a moleskine notebook, but with some thoughtful AI baked in
the founder (who sadly is not on fc yet) and i have...
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