those sure were simpler times
05.10.2025 19:15
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those sure were simpler times
To Come Home To Yourself May all that is unforgiven in you Be released. May your fears yield Their deepest tranquilities. May all that is unlived in you Blossom into a future Graced with love.
Friend gave me a John O’Donohue book recently. It’s quite good.
“To Come Home To Yourself”
moloch feeds on our shame
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
honestly same
good morning
old story in rob's head: ahhhhhhh i'm feeling super overwhelmed by my to do list, so i should prob run away and do a bunch of recreational numbing in the name of "self care"
new story: the more i do the better i feel
every time i quit coffee, it takes less than two weeks before i realize that nope my life is unequivocally better with coffee in it
just like woody guthrie had a guitar that said "this machine kills fascists" i think i'm gonna get a tattoo that says "this machine pets cats"
dude, would be so fun to jam with you on this!!
dude, still figuring out the logistics, but this is officially happening!
publishing on the internet hasn't felt fun for me for a few years, but writing something that'll only be physical feels so intriguing and ALIVE!!
we lost our way when we started worshipping statistics more than stories
type of guy who's learning to love being a work in progress
have you ever felt genuinely moved by writing from chatgpt or claude?
might fuck around and start a physical newsletter business
ooh, perdition is really interesting!
also, if you wanna write something similar to break free from a beguiling pattern in your own life, come join us at the six-sentence manifesto workshop tomorrow!
lu.ma/lqpd18y1
just wrote a super personal six-sentence manifesto that gets at the core of how I’ve self-sabotaged with money and work over the last decade
feels very freeing seeing this whole story in one place
thank u for reading my giant list. if you’re sufficiently convinced that it's time to write your own manifesto, i happen to be teaching a workshop on friday.
we're each gonna write a teeny tiny manifesto, and it’s gonna be quite fun!
lu.ma/lqpd18y1
49. because your worst sin is that you have betrayed yourself for nothing
50. because you want to respect the person staring back at you in the mirror
46. because you believe in giving yourself second and third and fourth chances
47. because you want your kid(s) to grow up with a model of what courage looks like
48. because cynicism is cowardice in disguise
44. because it’ll stir up vital, ancient energies that have lain dormant for far too long
45. because it will summon your arch nemesis
42. because you’re haunted by the stories of the world you inherited, and writing a manifesto is kinda like performing an exorcism
43. because you’re profoundly, utterly bored
39. because the seeds of the next great revolution will begin in a google doc passed around between friends
40. because you’ve got nothing to lose
41. because you’ve got everything to lose, yet the cost of not writing it is still higher
37. because you’re determined to prove your mother/father/high school guidance counselor wrong
38. because blaming your parents hasn’t been getting you anywhere and it’s time to forgive them and move the fuck on
35. because your granpappy fought for your freedoms in [insert war here] and you’ve finally realized what a gift that actually was
36. because the default way you rage against tyranny is turning you into a tyrant yourself, and you refuse to allow that to happen
33. because that tantalizing vision of the future has been stuck in your head for years, and writing it down and hitting publish starts making it REAL
34. because you’re ready to live the question instead of merely asking it
32. because you’re [mad as hell and not going to take this anymore
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29. because you’ve spent years Healing Your Trauma™ and now realize that it’s mostly been a way to hide from life and your deepest desire is to start living again
30. because it'll piss off exactly the right people
31. because it’ll break the spell of complacency and piss you off
26. because the old world is dying as the new world struggles to be born
27. because the old you is dying as the new you struggles to be born
28. because people like us do things like this