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Read this korrent: A habit has to be established before it can be improved, so standardizing a behavior comes before optimizing it.
A habit has to be established before it can be improved, so standardizing a behavior comes before optimizing it.
Last stated 8 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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James Clear — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Behavior is governed by the surroundings, so a good habit only holds when it is the path of least resistance in the rooms a person occupies. — tap to centre the map on it
Behavior is governed by the surroundings, so a good habit only holds when it is the path of least resistance in the rooms a person occupies.
Last stated 8 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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James Clear — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A habit is best understood as a recurring solution to a recurring problem in a person's environment. — tap to centre the map on it
A habit is best understood as a recurring solution to a recurring problem in a person's environment.
Last stated 8 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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James Clear — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Habits are built by making a behavior obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying, and broken by inverting each of those four. — tap to centre the map on it
Habits are built by making a behavior obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying, and broken by inverting each of those four.
Last stated 8 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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James Clear — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A small amount of friction is enough to reshape a behavior, because most wants are not strong enough to survive a minor inconvenience. — tap to centre the map on it
A small amount of friction is enough to reshape a behavior, because most wants are not strong enough to survive a minor inconvenience.
Last stated 8 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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James Clear — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The cost of a good habit falls in the present and the cost of a bad habit falls in the future, which is what separates the two. — tap to centre the map on it
The cost of a good habit falls in the present and the cost of a bad habit falls in the future, which is what separates the two.
Last stated 8 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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James Clear — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Habits stick because every repetition casts a vote for an identity, not because of the outcome any single repetition produces. — tap to centre the map on it
Habits stick because every repetition casts a vote for an identity, not because of the outcome any single repetition produces.
Last stated 8 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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James Clear — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If engineers do not hold themselves to a high standard and build efficiently, somebody else will come along and impose it on them. — tap to centre the map on it
If engineers do not hold themselves to a high standard and build efficiently, somebody else will come along and impose it on them.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
12 Aug 2026
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Charity Majors — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A habit only survives difficulty if the person enjoys it, which makes enjoyment a better predictor of persistence than discipline. — tap to centre the map on it
A habit only survives difficulty if the person enjoys it, which makes enjoyment a better predictor of persistence than discipline.
Last stated 8 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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James Clear — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language-agnostic conformance suite is the most powerful thing you can hand a coding agent, because the whole instruction becomes: write code until these tests pass. — tap to centre the map on it
A language-agnostic conformance suite is the most powerful thing you can hand a coding agent, because the whole instruction becomes: write code until these tests pass.
Last stated 6 months ago
19 Mar 2026
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Simon Willison — holds since 2026-03-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A passing test suite is not evidence that the software works, so an agent must also be made to start the thing and exercise it the way a person would. — tap to centre the map on it
A passing test suite is not evidence that the software works, so an agent must also be made to start the thing and exercise it the way a person would.
Last stated 6 months ago
19 Mar 2026
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Simon Willison — holds since 2026-03-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A team that slows down and reads every pull request and every line of code should expect only a 30 to 50 percent productivity lift from AI. — tap to centre the map on it
A team that slows down and reads every pull request and every line of code should expect only a 30 to 50 percent productivity lift from AI.
Last stated 2 months ago
15 Jul 2026
DH
Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A model can now port essentially any codebase from one programming language to another, work that used to take a team over a year. — tap to centre the map on it
A model can now port essentially any codebase from one programming language to another, work that used to take a team over a year.
Last stated a month ago
27 Jul 2026
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Boris Cherny — holds since 2026-07-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI acceleration threatens 'less software': without the constraint of scarce hours, even 37signals will likely build too much. — tap to centre the map on it
AI acceleration threatens 'less software': without the constraint of scarce hours, even 37signals will likely build too much.
Last stated a month ago
26 Jul 2026
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-07-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI has made it cheap to build the features that were never worth building, so shipping a new feature every day can make a product worse rather than better. — tap to centre the map on it
AI has made it cheap to build the features that were never worth building, so shipping a new feature every day can make a product worse rather than better.
Last stated 2 months ago
24 Jun 2026
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NeetCode — holds since 2026-06-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language can keep changing without a Python-2-to-3 break, as long as code written under the old and the new rules can be mixed freely in one program. — tap to centre the map on it
A language can keep changing without a Python-2-to-3 break, as long as code written under the old and the new rules can be mixed freely in one program.
Last stated 4 months ago
20 May 2026
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Alice Ryhl — holds since 2026-05-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Astra writes weird Python slop when one step removed from normal code, and its unit tests are horrific. — tap to centre the map on it
Astra writes weird Python slop when one step removed from normal code, and its unit tests are horrific.
Last stated 2 days ago
6 Sept 2026
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Armin Ronacher — holds since 2026-09-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Python is ugly: full of superfluous instructions kept since 1987 for legacy reasons, and its __init__ offends the sensibilities to the core. — tap to centre the map on it
Python is ugly: full of superfluous instructions kept since 1987 for legacy reasons, and its __init__ offends the sensibilities to the core.
Last stated a year ago
12 Jul 2025
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-07-12 — tap for who they are
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A habit has to be established before it can be improved, so standardizing a behavior comes before optimizing it.
Last stated 1 Jan 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds JC James Clear
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Behavior is governed by the surroundings, so a good habit only holds when it is the path of least resistance in the rooms a person occupies.
Last stated 1 Jan 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds JC James Clear
Similar wording
A habit is best understood as a recurring solution to a recurring problem in a person's environment.
Last stated 1 Jan 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds JC James Clear
Similar wording
Habits are built by making a behavior obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying, and broken by inverting each of those four.
Last stated 1 Jan 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds JC James Clear
Similar wording
A small amount of friction is enough to reshape a behavior, because most wants are not strong enough to survive a minor inconvenience.
Last stated 1 Jan 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds JC James Clear
Similar wording
The cost of a good habit falls in the present and the cost of a bad habit falls in the future, which is what separates the two.
Last stated 1 Jan 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds JC James Clear
Similar wording
Habits stick because every repetition casts a vote for an identity, not because of the outcome any single repetition produces.
Last stated 1 Jan 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds JC James Clear
Similar wording
If engineers do not hold themselves to a high standard and build efficiently, somebody else will come along and impose it on them.
Last stated 12 Aug 2026 · 4 weeks ago
Holds CM Charity Majors
Similar wording
A habit only survives difficulty if the person enjoys it, which makes enjoyment a better predictor of persistence than discipline.
Last stated 1 Jan 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds JC James Clear
Same subject: software quality
A language-agnostic conformance suite is the most powerful thing you can hand a coding agent, because the whole instruction becomes: write code until these tests pass.
Last stated 19 Mar 2026 · 6 months ago
Holds Simon Willison
Same subject: software quality
A passing test suite is not evidence that the software works, so an agent must also be made to start the thing and exercise it the way a person would.
Last stated 19 Mar 2026 · 6 months ago
Holds Simon Willison
Same subject: software quality
A team that slows down and reads every pull request and every line of code should expect only a 30 to 50 percent productivity lift from AI.
Last stated 15 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds DH Dex Horthy
Same subject: code generation
A model can now port essentially any codebase from one programming language to another, work that used to take a team over a year.
Last stated 27 Jul 2026 · a month ago
Holds Boris Cherny
Same subject: code generation
AI acceleration threatens 'less software': without the constraint of scarce hours, even 37signals will likely build too much.
Last stated 26 Jul 2026 · a month ago
Holds David Heinemeier Hansson
Same subject: code generation
AI has made it cheap to build the features that were never worth building, so shipping a new feature every day can make a product worse rather than better.
Last stated 24 Jun 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds NE NeetCode
Same subject: Python
A language can keep changing without a Python-2-to-3 break, as long as code written under the old and the new rules can be mixed freely in one program.
Last stated 20 May 2026 · 4 months ago
Holds AR Alice Ryhl
Same subject: Python
Astra writes weird Python slop when one step removed from normal code, and its unit tests are horrific.
Last stated 6 Sept 2026 · 2 days ago
Holds Armin Ronacher
Same subject: Python
Python is ugly: full of superfluous instructions kept since 1987 for legacy reasons, and its __init__ offends the sensibilities to the core.
Last stated 12 Jul 2025 · a year ago
Holds David Heinemeier Hansson