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Read this korrent: Fixation errors come from explaining away anomalies and holding on to a wrong first impression until it is far too late.
Fixation errors come from explaining away anomalies and holding on to a wrong first impression until it is far too late.
Last stated 4 years ago
9 Aug 2022
GK
Gary Klein — holds since 2022-08-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Forming an impression very quickly leads to spending the time confirming it rather than collecting evidence, so a wrong first impression is unlikely to be corrected. — tap to centre the map on it
Forming an impression very quickly leads to spending the time confirming it rather than collecting evidence, so a wrong first impression is unlikely to be corrected.
Last stated 7 years ago
12 Oct 2019
DK
Daniel Kahneman — holds since 2019-10-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Much wrongdoing comes from good people doing bad things without knowing it, not from bad people — tap to centre the map on it
Much wrongdoing comes from good people doing bad things without knowing it, not from bad people
Last stated 18 years ago
12 Jun 2008
MB
Max Bazerman — holds since 2008-06-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A pre-mortem has to treat the failure as certain and ask why it happened; asking what could go wrong is too tentative to work. — tap to centre the map on it
A pre-mortem has to treat the failure as certain and ask why it happened; asking what could go wrong is too tentative to work.
Last stated 4 years ago
9 Aug 2022
GK
Gary Klein — holds since 2022-08-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Being professionally offended by every little thing is no longer a dominant disposition — tap to centre the map on it
Being professionally offended by every little thing is no longer a dominant disposition
Last stated 2 years ago
6 Nov 2024
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2024-11-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Decades of warnings about an AI apocalypse do not justify much concern today. — tap to centre the map on it
Decades of warnings about an AI apocalypse do not justify much concern today.
Last stated a month ago
12 Sept 2026
PF
Paul Ford — holds since 2026-09-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Deliberately shifting a culture is far harder now that everyone can personalise their media and skip past anything they dislike. — tap to centre the map on it
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: A drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out. — tap to centre the map on it
A drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out.
Last stated 3 years ago
10 Jan 2024
CH
Cate Hall — holds since 2024-01-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A founder who picks an idea because the market wants it will give up, because nobody can persist at something that was never important to them. — tap to centre the map on it
A founder who picks an idea because the market wants it will give up, because nobody can persist at something that was never important to them.
Last stated 2 years ago
19 Jun 2024
AS
Aravind Srinivas — holds since 2024-06-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A general inclination of all humankind is a perpetual, restless desire of power after power that ends only in death — tap to centre the map on it
A general inclination of all humankind is a perpetual, restless desire of power after power that ends only in death
TH
Thomas Hobbes — holds since c. 1651 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it. — tap to centre the map on it
A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it.
Last stated 2 years ago
1 Dec 2024
AE
Alice Evans — holds since 2024-12-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment. — tap to centre the map on it
A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment.
Last stated 2 months ago
31 Aug 2026
DD
Daniel W. Drezner — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A citizen deciding politically should ask what is good for the community, not what is good for themselves — tap to centre the map on it
A citizen deciding politically should ask what is good for the community, not what is good for themselves
JT
Joseph Tussman — holds since c. 2000 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2008 to today (stretched back to the oldest claim here) — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are