17 connected korrents · 16 moments from 8 Jan 2013 to 4 Oct 2026. Nearly all of them are about creativity.
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Especially with AI now, anyone can arguably try, and non-technical people with the best ideas, taste, and grasp of the cultural zeitgeist can win.
Last stated 7 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
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Pieter Levels
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Same subject: creativity
A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work.
Last stated 14 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Susan Kare
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Same subject: creativity
A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
Last stated c. 1959
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Isaac Asimov
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Same subject: creativity
A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness
Last stated 8 Jan 2013 · 14 years ago
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Daniel Dennett
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Same subject: creativity
A too-faithful remake of an existing work squanders creative effort that could have made something new.
Last stated 4 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
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Matt Webb
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Same subject: creativity
AI progress is jagged: models are becoming superhuman at math and software engineering while remaining far weaker at intuition, creativity, and other forms of human reasoning.
Last stated 10 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Nathan Lambert
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Same subject: creativity
AI should serve understanding the universe and enhancing human cognition and creativity.
Last stated 26 Sept 2026 · 4 weeks ago
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Guillermo Rauch
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Same subject: creativity
AI still lacks core human skills such as single-shot learning and the raw creativity to connect anything to anything.
Last stated 19 Feb 2026 · 8 months ago
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Naval Ravikant
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Same subject: creativity
AI-assisted writing creates an illusion of greater creativity while actually reducing the originality of the ideas expressed.
Last stated 22 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Adam Grant
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Same subject: taste
A big part of taste is delivering high levels of craft in an accessible way so that as many people as possible can experience it.
Last stated 21 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago
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Brandon Jacoby
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Same subject: taste
A company name can have different appeal to corporate buyers versus their customers.
Last stated 4 Oct 2026 · 3 weeks ago
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Paul Graham
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Same subject: taste
A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.
Last stated 6 Aug 2026 · 3 months ago
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George Saunders
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Same subject: design
A product's craft probably comes down to whether it works without pain and how it makes people feel.
Last stated 10 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Robby Stein
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Same subject: design
A shadow in an interface implies a light source, so an elevated element needs a highlight where the light falls, not just a drop shadow.
Last stated 21 Feb 2025 · 2 years ago
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Thiago Costa
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Same subject: design
A twist works best when it is discoverable on rewatch rather than achieved by directly misleading the audience.
Last stated 18 Nov 2025 · 11 months ago
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Nat Eliason
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Same subject: AI slop
A skill is basically a prompt, sometimes a large one, more like a style guide: the best practice for taste, which font to use, and how to guide AI not to create AI slop.
Last stated 30 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Meng To
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Same subject: AI slop
AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.
Last stated 29 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Kyle Chayka
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Same subject: AI slop
Mass-produced AI-generated podcast shows are not a major threat to podcasting because listeners do not like them.
Last stated 25 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Justin Jackson