17 connected korrents · 17 moments from 8 Jan 2013 to 19 Oct 2026. Nearly all of them are about infrastructure.
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Every open, harmless-looking endpoint is an affordance that any capable system can use, so security boundaries should be drawn around what a tool lets anything reachable do, not around who it is meant for.
Last stated 19 Oct 2026 · 5 days ago
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Kenneth Reitz
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Same subject: design, infrastructure
A person who controls their own infrastructure and signing keys can meaningfully own their digital identity.
Last stated 14 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Steve Klabnik
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Same subject: infrastructure
"Food from thin air" is not from thin air: it runs on water, minerals, ammonia and industrial plant.
Last stated 30 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Chris Smaje
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Same subject: infrastructure
A future where Facebook is the global social infrastructure is a future with no refuge from advertising and number crunching.
Last stated 3 Mar 2017 · 10 years ago
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Eugen Rochko
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Same subject: infrastructure
A good tool raises the floor of what people can build without lowering the ceiling, and almost every tool quietly lowers the ceiling.
Last stated 18 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Tobias Lütke
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Same subject: infrastructure
A government taking a stake in its chipmaker is ordinary infrastructure policy — Taiwan, Japan and Singapore all did it.
Last stated 18 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Lip-Bu Tan
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Same subject: infrastructure
A model of transit building that adds a new line every couple of years is healthier than one that adds them every couple of decades.
Last stated 25 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Reece Martin
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Same subject: infrastructure
A new infrastructure primitive delivers value only when it changes the shape of what is being built.
Last stated 11 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
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Kent C. Dodds
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Same subject: infrastructure
A new kind of economy is being born where agents purchase infrastructure products and services.
Last stated 9 Oct 2026 · 2 weeks ago
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Guillermo Rauch
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Same subject: simplicity
A business is more likely to fail from taking on too much complexity than from lacking resources.
Last stated 29 Sept 2018 · 8 years ago
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Tren Griffin
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Same subject: simplicity
A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones.
Last stated 17 Feb 2024 · 3 years ago
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Adam Wiggins
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Same subject: simplicity
A candidate negotiating an offer should make every ask fit one line of logic.
Last stated 9 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Adam Ward
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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: 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 person who works from a recipe, even an innovative one, starts from something that already exists.
Last stated 6 Nov 2015 · 11 years ago
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Tim Urban