"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
—Anaïs Nin

"adding value" is such a cursed phrase

it's led so many ppl (myself included) to construct elaborate perceptions of themselves as valuable vs just, like, helping ppl out when the opportunity arises

i love how notion just put this banner on top of all my pages with zero way to get rid of it and now i just get to stare at it for three months? cool

manifesto

it's limiting to think of a manifesto as "yours"

lotta freedom in letting it belong to a moment, to a movement, to some transformational energy that wants to be born through you.

Music

saw hiromi live last night

truly the queen of chaotically beautiful jazz piano

saw hiromi live last night

truly the queen of chaotically beautiful jazz piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIYIAuwzsGQ

First Draft Club

second piece published this month

https://paragraph.com/@manifestory/lightpage-chronicles

just tipped my favorite farcasters!

thank you @jihad @katekornish @christin @liv @keikreutler @rafa @mark @drewcoffman.eth for being here :)

seeker /native /believein /bedrock 🇵🇸

Governance Public Utilities for @zksync at @thezknation

Interested in human flourishing & social infrastructure | slowly building /firstdraft

Writing about how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build https://keikreutler.net 🗝️

chaotic futurist at /radar 🔮 | writer, zk enjoyer, cypherpunk | livpasquarelli.com | 0xLivster.twitter

Classical musician and educator with psychology qualification. humansdid.com ambassador https://paragraph.xyz/@katekornish

neuroscience phd, DeSci advocate, Buddhist chaplain. co-host of the /okbanger show and vibe imagineer for /christin. https://seemore.tv/christin

ok, so published a new thing on paragraph last week! basically a public declaration of a quest i'm embarking on to write 100 manifestos over the next few years

https://paragraph.com/@manifestory/one-hundred-manifestos

holy smokes, the new auto-generated covers for @paragraph posts look freaking incredible

Where writers share, grow, and get paid — one post at a time.

ok, so published a new thing on paragraph last week! basically a public declaration of a quest i'm embarking on to write 100 manifestos over the next few years

slowly learning that betraying myself is not a virtue

Books

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

i come back to cannery row like once a year. one of those books that just keeps imprinting deeper and deeper on my soul

y'all i think farcaster might be the cannery row of the internet

quotes

Are you playing someone else’s game or creating your own?

Uncle Terry reminds us that reacting to bad ideas keeps us trapped in their framework. 

The real power lies in generating new, better ideas ones that redefine the conversation entirely. This is one of the big reasons that I love this place

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

tfw chatgpt thinks you're @ted's younger brother 🥰

helping build farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud”

Creators

can’t wait for twelve years from now when my medium balance will be high enough to withdraw lmao

writing a manifesto is about creating a microcosm of the world you want to live in, and inviting people to join you there

spirituality

Paragraph

Great writing deserves to be shared, seen, and supported.
But today’s internet makes that harder than it should be.

We want to give writers a place where their ideas thrive — and today, we’re launching a new look and a new home at https://paragraph.com.

Read more below ↓

hell yeah. this new paragraph branding has me even more pumped to start publishing over there 🔥

getting a solid night's sleep is like one of those app updates that's just "bug fixes and improvements."

no splashy new features, but shit just works a lil better

doing my taxes today and wishing i could studio-ghiblify them somehow

who’s working on this?

writer of manifestos, petter of cats.

in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet.

rob hardy

@robhardy.eth