17 connected korrents · 16 moments from 7 Jan 2018 to 14 Oct 2026.
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Ask who benefits from you reading a piece of news, and you conclude that perhaps 95 percent of it was published to get you to buy, support, fight or donate.
Last stated 30 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Pavel Durov
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People are optimistic about their own lives and pessimistic about the world, because they judge their life on everything and the world on the last few headlines.
Last stated 13 Jan 2026 · 9 months ago
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Hannah Ritchie
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The answer to living inside the news is not to stop reading it but to move your emotional investment back into the part of the world you can actually affect.
Last stated by 16 Aug 2021 · 5 years ago
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Oliver Burkeman
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Things are understood better from books than from newspapers, television, or social media.
Last stated 14 Oct 2026 · a week ago
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Brad Feld
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An audience is not buying the subject you cover; it is buying your interest in the subject.
Last stated 15 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago
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Michael Lewis
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An account of an AI win is not worth publishing unless it is coupled with what that win cost.
Last stated 12 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Charity Majors
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Reading a great deal about a subject works partly by holding your attention on it long enough to change, not only by adding facts.
Last stated 16 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Scott H. Young
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More about money may be learned from fields like politics, military history, biology and sociology than from a finance book, because the question is how people make decisions.
Last stated 28 May 2024 · 2 years ago
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Morgan Housel
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People who want to become more widely read rarely think about the responsibility that comes with a larger audience.
Last stated 9 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago
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Saloni Dattani
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Now that anyone can generate a body of text, the only thing that justifies asking for a reader's time is whether the idea itself is worth reading.
Last stated 19 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Addy Osmani
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Same subject: journalism
A correction never travels as far as the scare it corrects: the press said a fifth of the project's skills were malicious, and the measured figure was 0.3 percent.
Last stated 10 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Peter Steinberger
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Same subject: journalism
A press dedicated to uncovering the truth keeps society from ignoring corruption and injustice
Last stated 7 Jan 2018 · 9 years ago
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Oprah Winfrey
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Same subject: journalism
Climate coverage in the media is shrinking and increasingly paywalled.
Last stated 15 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Emily Atkin
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Same subject: Telegram
There is no such thing as an unbiased source of information; understanding the world means reading conflicting sources that hate each other.
Last stated 30 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Pavel Durov
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Same subject: Telegram
Almost every one-to-one Telegram chat, and every group chat, is readable on Telegram’s own servers.
Last stated 25 Aug 2024 · 2 years ago
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Matthew Green
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Same subject: Telegram
Arresting Pavel Durov was a historic wrong and a gigantic PR mistake that will keep founders from building in France.
Last stated 30 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Lex Fridman
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Same subject: attitude change
Increased media coverage of mass shootings increases public fear of them.
Last stated 14 Aug 2019 · 7 years ago
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Felix Salmon
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Same subject: attitude change
Being professionally offended by every little thing is no longer a dominant disposition
Last stated 6 Nov 2024 · 2 years ago
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David Heinemeier Hansson