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Read this korrent: Deliberately shifting a culture is far harder now that everyone can personalise their media and skip past anything they dislike.
Deliberately shifting a culture is far harder now that everyone can personalise their media and skip past anything they dislike.
Last stated a year ago
1 Jul 2025
AE
Alice Evans — holds since 2025-07-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Culture can be changed, so falling birth rates are a fixable problem rather than a one-way ratchet of modernity. — tap to centre the map on it
Culture can be changed, so falling birth rates are a fixable problem rather than a one-way ratchet of modernity.
Last stated a year ago
1 Jul 2025
AE
Alice Evans — holds since 2025-07-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Language models have no culture — no written record they hand to one another — and that absence is one of the things holding them back. — tap to centre the map on it
Language models have no culture — no written record they hand to one another — and that absence is one of the things holding them back.
Last stated 11 months ago
17 Oct 2025
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-10-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: What AI has exposed is a shortfall of effort and caring, not of intelligence: people who cannot say why they moved a button never thought about it. — tap to centre the map on it
What AI has exposed is a shortfall of effort and caring, not of intelligence: people who cannot say why they moved a button never thought about it.
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: It would be dangerous for a few people from industry to set the rules for AI, because market forces are not societal norms. — tap to centre the map on it
It would be dangerous for a few people from industry to set the rules for AI, because market forces are not societal norms.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
10 Aug 2026
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Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The way we make things is out of tune with the time dimension of the natural world, and that has to change even if it means designing on the scale of centuries. — tap to centre the map on it
The way we make things is out of tune with the time dimension of the natural world, and that has to change even if it means designing on the scale of centuries.
Last stated 3 years ago
1 Sept 2023
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Neri Oxman — holds since 2023-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI has lowered the barrier enough that non-technical people with strong ideas, taste, and cultural awareness can build successful businesses. — tap to centre the map on it
AI has lowered the barrier enough that non-technical people with strong ideas, taste, and cultural awareness can build successful businesses.
Last stated yesterday
7 Sept 2026
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Pieter Levels — holds since 2026-09-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Enemy manipulation of a whole society's information environment is unlikely ever to be decisive in a war, because shaping another society's perceptions is genuinely hard. — tap to centre the map on it
Enemy manipulation of a whole society's information environment is unlikely ever to be decisive in a war, because shaping another society's perceptions is genuinely hard.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
17 Aug 2026
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Lawrence Freedman — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Designers will do well out of AI rather than badly, because taste is the hardest part of their job to imagine being automated away. — tap to centre the map on it
Designers will do well out of AI rather than badly, because taste is the hardest part of their job to imagine being automated away.
Last stated 2 months ago
9 Jul 2026
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Adam Mosseri — holds since 2026-07-09 — 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: Convergence and simplicity make for poor goals in technology; aim for clarity instead. — tap to centre the map on it
Convergence and simplicity make for poor goals in technology; aim for clarity instead.
Last stated 12 years ago
18 Feb 2015
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Frank Chimero — holds since 2015-02-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Savings in time feel like simplicity: when forced to wait, life seems unnecessarily complex. — tap to centre the map on it
Savings in time feel like simplicity: when forced to wait, life seems unnecessarily complex.
Last stated 20 years ago
11 Jun 2006
JM
John Maeda — holds since 2006-06-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Chat is not AI's final form: agent-based applications increasingly outperform chat-only ones, and many different interfaces for AI will emerge. — tap to centre the map on it
Chat is not AI's final form: agent-based applications increasingly outperform chat-only ones, and many different interfaces for AI will emerge.
Last stated a year ago
28 Aug 2025
LW
Luke Wroblewski — holds since 2025-08-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Chatbot interfaces are the wrong tool for meaningful coding work, because you are mostly hoping the model recalls the right answer and correcting it requires a human in the loop. — tap to centre the map on it
Chatbot interfaces are the wrong tool for meaningful coding work, because you are mostly hoping the model recalls the right answer and correcting it requires a human in the loop.
Last stated 7 months ago
5 Feb 2026
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Mitchell Hashimoto — holds since 2026-02-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: ChatGPT exploded because of its obvious chat interface, not its technology, which had launched earlier in a different wrapper that few noticed. — tap to centre the map on it
ChatGPT exploded because of its obvious chat interface, not its technology, which had launched earlier in a different wrapper that few noticed.
Last stated a year ago
12 May 2025
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Julie Zhuo — holds since 2025-05-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing. — tap to centre the map on it
A plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing.
Last stated 5 years ago
2 Mar 2022
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Derek Sivers — holds since 2022-03-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Developer tools are consumer products, and the reason there are gaps to win is that programmers are horrible at consumer products and do not know it. — tap to centre the map on it
Developer tools are consumer products, and the reason there are gaps to win is that programmers are horrible at consumer products and do not know it.
Last stated 3 months ago
27 May 2026
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Dax Raad — holds since 2026-05-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Every tool is better as a CLI than as an MCP server: models are good at Unix commands, a CLI composes with jq, and MCP output clutters the context. — tap to centre the map on it
Every tool is better as a CLI than as an MCP server: models are good at Unix commands, a CLI composes with jq, and MCP output clutters the context.
Last stated 7 months ago
12 Feb 2026
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Peter Steinberger — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
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Deliberately shifting a culture is far harder now that everyone can personalise their media and skip past anything they dislike.
Last stated 1 Jul 2025 · a year ago
Holds AE Alice Evans
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Culture can be changed, so falling birth rates are a fixable problem rather than a one-way ratchet of modernity.
Last stated 1 Jul 2025 · a year ago
Holds AE Alice Evans
Similar wording
Language models have no culture — no written record they hand to one another — and that absence is one of the things holding them back.
Last stated 17 Oct 2025 · 11 months ago
Holds Andrej Karpathy
Similar wording
What AI has exposed is a shortfall of effort and caring, not of intelligence: people who cannot say why they moved a button never thought about it.
Last stated 24 Jun 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds NE NeetCode
Similar wording
It would be dangerous for a few people from industry to set the rules for AI, because market forces are not societal norms.
Last stated 10 Aug 2026 · 4 weeks ago
Holds FL Fei-Fei Li
Similar wording
The way we make things is out of tune with the time dimension of the natural world, and that has to change even if it means designing on the scale of centuries.
Last stated 1 Sept 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds NO Neri Oxman
Similar wording
AI has lowered the barrier enough that non-technical people with strong ideas, taste, and cultural awareness can build successful businesses.
Last stated 7 Sept 2026 · yesterday
Holds Pieter Levels
Similar wording
Enemy manipulation of a whole society's information environment is unlikely ever to be decisive in a war, because shaping another society's perceptions is genuinely hard.
Last stated 17 Aug 2026 · 3 weeks ago
Holds LF Lawrence Freedman
Similar wording
Designers will do well out of AI rather than badly, because taste is the hardest part of their job to imagine being automated away.
Last stated 9 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds AM Adam Mosseri
Same subject: simplicity
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: simplicity
Convergence and simplicity make for poor goals in technology; aim for clarity instead.
Last stated 18 Feb 2015 · 12 years ago
Holds FC Frank Chimero
Same subject: simplicity
Savings in time feel like simplicity: when forced to wait, life seems unnecessarily complex.
Last stated 11 Jun 2006 · 20 years ago
Holds JM John Maeda
Same subject: chat interfaces
Chat is not AI's final form: agent-based applications increasingly outperform chat-only ones, and many different interfaces for AI will emerge.
Last stated 28 Aug 2025 · a year ago
Holds LW Luke Wroblewski
Same subject: chat interfaces
Chatbot interfaces are the wrong tool for meaningful coding work, because you are mostly hoping the model recalls the right answer and correcting it requires a human in the loop.
Last stated 5 Feb 2026 · 7 months ago
Holds Mitchell Hashimoto
Same subject: chat interfaces
ChatGPT exploded because of its obvious chat interface, not its technology, which had launched earlier in a different wrapper that few noticed.
Last stated 12 May 2025 · a year ago
Holds JZ Julie Zhuo
Same subject: developer tools
A plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing.
Last stated 2 Mar 2022 · 5 years ago
Holds Derek Sivers
Same subject: developer tools
Developer tools are consumer products, and the reason there are gaps to win is that programmers are horrible at consumer products and do not know it.
Last stated 27 May 2026 · 3 months ago
Holds Dax Raad
Same subject: developer tools
Every tool is better as a CLI than as an MCP server: models are good at Unix commands, a CLI composes with jq, and MCP output clutters the context.
Last stated 12 Feb 2026 · 7 months ago
Holds Peter Steinberger