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Read this korrent: Financial constraints often drive the ingenuity that makes dreams achievable.
Financial constraints often drive the ingenuity that makes dreams achievable.
Last stated a month ago
24 Aug 2026
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Kevin Kelly — holds since 2026-08-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If money is the only thing holding someone back from what they want to do, they are not thinking clearly; there is always a way around it. — tap to centre the map on it
If money is the only thing holding someone back from what they want to do, they are not thinking clearly; there is always a way around it.
Last stated a year ago
14 May 2025
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Derek Sivers — holds since 2025-05-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints — tap to centre the map on it
Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints
Last stated 2 months ago
26 Jul 2026
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-07-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The struggle of making something is not an obstacle in front of the work; it is where the meaning comes from. — tap to centre the map on it
The struggle of making something is not an obstacle in front of the work; it is where the meaning comes from.
Last stated 3 years ago
10 Aug 2023
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Nick Cave — holds since 2023-08-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Constraints force a team to choose a dimension in which to be world-class; embrace constraints, but not bottlenecks. — tap to centre the map on it
Constraints force a team to choose a dimension in which to be world-class; embrace constraints, but not bottlenecks.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
10 Sept 2026
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Geoff Charles — holds since 2026-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Commercial pressure and creative ambition point in the same direction, because the way to make an expensive game's money back is to make something great. — tap to centre the map on it
Commercial pressure and creative ambition point in the same direction, because the way to make an expensive game's money back is to make something great.
Last stated 11 months ago
31 Oct 2025
DH
Dan Houser — holds since 2025-10-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Building a manufactured object at a high enough rate pushes its cost down toward the cost of its inputs. — tap to centre the map on it
Building a manufactured object at a high enough rate pushes its cost down toward the cost of its inputs.
Last stated 4 years ago
30 Jan 2023
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Eli Dourado — holds since 2023-01-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Being told to be realistic about your ambitions is how ambitions fail; the boundaries people accept about what they can do are the ones that stop them. — tap to centre the map on it
Being told to be realistic about your ambitions is how ambitions fail; the boundaries people accept about what they can do are the ones that stop them.
Last stated a month ago
24 Aug 2026
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Masud Husain — holds since 2026-08-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The best opportunities in life often reveal themselves when the easy path is blocked — tap to centre the map on it
The best opportunities in life often reveal themselves when the easy path is blocked
Last stated 3 years ago
19 Sept 2023
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2023-09-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Lots of anonymous people worked it out by trial and error" is never the real story of an invention: on closer investigation, identifiable people always turn out to be responsible. — tap to centre the map on it
"Lots of anonymous people worked it out by trial and error" is never the real story of an invention: on closer investigation, identifiable people always turn out to be responsible.
Last stated 3 years ago
25 Oct 2023
AH
Anton Howes — holds since 2023-10-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A business can have market fit, real advantages, and sustained effort behind a hard product and still fail if it doesn't give customers a strong enough reason to switch from what they already use. — tap to centre the map on it
A business can have market fit, real advantages, and sustained effort behind a hard product and still fail if it doesn't give customers a strong enough reason to switch from what they already use.
Last stated 4 months ago
2 Jun 2026
JJ
Justin Jackson — holds since 2026-06-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A capability existing is not the same as a capability being absorbed: how fast a technology changes the world is not set by how fast the technology improves. — tap to centre the map on it
A capability existing is not the same as a capability being absorbed: how fast a technology changes the world is not set by how fast the technology improves.
Last stated 2 months ago
21 Jul 2026
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Ruxandra Teslo — holds since 2026-07-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A minor bust in the AI industry would be a good thing, not a bad one. — tap to centre the map on it
A minor bust in the AI industry would be a good thing, not a bad one.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
18 Sept 2026
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Robin Sloan — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI capability progress in a given skill tends to arrive as a sudden phase change rather than as steady improvement. — tap to centre the map on it
AI capability progress in a given skill tends to arrive as a sudden phase change rather than as steady improvement.
Last stated a month ago
24 Aug 2026
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Jack Clark — holds since 2026-08-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI is not fundamentally different from other software products. — tap to centre the map on it
AI is not fundamentally different from other software products.
Last stated a week ago
25 Sept 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A million copies of one researcher would hit diminishing returns quickly, because what research needs is people who think differently. — tap to centre the map on it
A million copies of one researcher would hit diminishing returns quickly, because what research needs is people who think differently.
Last stated 10 months ago
25 Nov 2025
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Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Digital biology is about to have its ChatGPT moment, on the back of multimodality, long context and synthetic data generation. — tap to centre the map on it
Digital biology is about to have its ChatGPT moment, on the back of multimodality, long context and synthetic data generation.
Last stated 9 months ago
8 Jan 2026
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Jensen Huang — holds since 2026-01-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Drug discovery has become less efficient over time despite continued technological progress. — tap to centre the map on it
Drug discovery has become less efficient over time despite continued technological progress.
Last stated 8 months ago
18 Jan 2026
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Elliot Hershberg — holds since 2026-01-18 — tap for who they are
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Financial constraints often drive the ingenuity that makes dreams achievable.
Last stated 24 Aug 2026 · a month ago
Holds Kevin Kelly
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If money is the only thing holding someone back from what they want to do, they are not thinking clearly; there is always a way around it.
Last stated 14 May 2025 · a year ago
Holds Derek Sivers
Similar wording
Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints
Last stated 26 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds David Heinemeier Hansson
Similar wording
The struggle of making something is not an obstacle in front of the work; it is where the meaning comes from.
Last stated 10 Aug 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds Nick Cave
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Constraints force a team to choose a dimension in which to be world-class; embrace constraints, but not bottlenecks.
Last stated 10 Sept 2026 · 3 weeks ago
Holds Geoff Charles
Similar wording
Commercial pressure and creative ambition point in the same direction, because the way to make an expensive game's money back is to make something great.
Last stated 31 Oct 2025 · 11 months ago
Holds Dan Houser
Similar wording
Building a manufactured object at a high enough rate pushes its cost down toward the cost of its inputs.
Last stated 30 Jan 2023 · 4 years ago
Holds Eli Dourado
Similar wording
Being told to be realistic about your ambitions is how ambitions fail; the boundaries people accept about what they can do are the ones that stop them.
Last stated 24 Aug 2026 · a month ago
Holds Masud Husain
Similar wording
The best opportunities in life often reveal themselves when the easy path is blocked
Last stated 19 Sept 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds David Heinemeier Hansson
Same subject: innovation
"Lots of anonymous people worked it out by trial and error" is never the real story of an invention: on closer investigation, identifiable people always turn out to be responsible.
Last stated 25 Oct 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds Anton Howes
Same subject: innovation
A business can have market fit, real advantages, and sustained effort behind a hard product and still fail if it doesn't give customers a strong enough reason to switch from what they already use.
Last stated 2 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
Holds Justin Jackson
Same subject: innovation
A capability existing is not the same as a capability being absorbed: how fast a technology changes the world is not set by how fast the technology improves.
Last stated 21 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Ruxandra Teslo
Same subject: LLMs
A minor bust in the AI industry would be a good thing, not a bad one.
Last stated 18 Sept 2026 · 2 weeks ago
Holds Robin Sloan
Same subject: LLMs
AI capability progress in a given skill tends to arrive as a sudden phase change rather than as steady improvement.
Last stated 24 Aug 2026 · a month ago
Holds Jack Clark
Same subject: LLMs
AI is not fundamentally different from other software products.
Last stated 25 Sept 2026 · a week ago
Holds Zvi Mowshowitz
Same subject: AI and science
A million copies of one researcher would hit diminishing returns quickly, because what research needs is people who think differently.
Last stated 25 Nov 2025 · 10 months ago
Holds Ilya Sutskever
Same subject: AI and science
Digital biology is about to have its ChatGPT moment, on the back of multimodality, long context and synthetic data generation.
Last stated 8 Jan 2026 · 9 months ago
Holds Jensen Huang
Same subject: AI and science
Drug discovery has become less efficient over time despite continued technological progress.
Last stated 18 Jan 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds Elliot Hershberg