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24 Sept 2026
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Paul Bloom — holds since 2026-09-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: In choosing what to learn, who is teaching it matters more than what it is, because your existing interests are fairly arbitrary and a good educator is not. — tap to centre the map on it In choosing what to learn, who is teaching it matters more than what it is, because your existing interests are fairly arbitrary and a good educator is not. Last stated 3 months ago
30 Jun 2026
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Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Over a long career it is important to try to treat failures and rejections as teaching signals — tap to centre the map on it Over a long career it is important to try to treat failures and rejections as teaching signals Last stated 8 years ago
5 Dec 2018
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Daniel Schacter — holds since 2018-12-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: College is not a good career investment for most of the population. — tap to centre the map on it College is not a good career investment for most of the population. Last stated 2 years ago
19 Feb 2025
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Bryan Caplan — holds since 2025-02-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Teaching often rewards getting a technique out of a student rather than helping the student become more fully themselves. — tap to centre the map on it Teaching often rewards getting a technique out of a student rather than helping the student become more fully themselves. Last stated 2 months ago
29 Jul 2026
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Dan Meyer — holds since 2026-07-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A frontier lab should not spend its researchers harvesting results out of today's models; the payoff is in building the next one. — tap to centre the map on it A frontier lab should not spend its researchers harvesting results out of today's models; the payoff is in building the next one. Last stated 3 months ago
26 Jun 2026
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Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are
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30 Jul 2026
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Jeff Dean — holds since 2026-07-30 — tap for who they are
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13 Mar 2026
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Dylan Patel — holds since 2026-03-13 — tap for who they are
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30 Jun 2026
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Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
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25 Jan 2026
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Jason Cohen — holds since 2026-01-25 — tap for who they are
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3 Aug 2025
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William MacAskill — holds since 2025-08-03 — tap for who they are
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23 Mar 2025
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Rahul Vohra — holds since 2025-03-23 — tap for who they are
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8 Apr 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-04-08 — tap for who they are
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18 Sept 2026
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Gretchen Rubin — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
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1 Jan 2026
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James Clear — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
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3 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
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2 Jun 2026
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Mark Pincus — holds since 2026-06-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Ambition in founders is mostly inborn, which is why stories of a founder acquiring it during a batch are rare. — tap to centre the map on it Ambition in founders is mostly inborn, which is why stories of a founder acquiring it during a batch are rare. Last stated 4 weeks ago
3 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
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For someone pursuing an academic research career, spending too much time on teaching is a poor use of time.
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In choosing what to learn, who is teaching it matters more than what it is, because your existing interests are fairly arbitrary and a good educator is not.
Holds
Over a long career it is important to try to treat failures and rejections as teaching signals
Holds
College is not a good career investment for most of the population.
Holds
Teaching often rewards getting a technique out of a student rather than helping the student become more fully themselves.
Holds
A frontier lab should not spend its researchers harvesting results out of today's models; the payoff is in building the next one.
Holds
When agents do the building, the scarce skill is taste: choosing which problem is worth the time at all.
Holds
A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from.
Holds
Anyone choosing a career should work out where the money comes from and what value they add; asking the question at all puts you ahead of your peers.
Holds
"If you're not growing, you're dying" is truer of the person than of the company.
Holds
A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us.
Holds
A company that looks to its users as though it has stopped shipping is usually widening its market, and grinding through that is worth it.
Holds
AI is not a limited-time sale: the people furthest along are working harder than ever, and they need to stop harvesting dopamine as if it ends in two weeks.
Holds
An unstarted, unresolved task is more mentally exhausting than almost any other kind of task.
Holds
Effort that produces no visible improvement is being stored rather than wasted, because results arrive at a threshold instead of steadily.
Holds
A founder needs ambition rather than a sense of duty, because a startup is grueling enough that dutifulness will not carry anyone through it.
Holds
A founder who does not know their own goal dies by a thousand compromises and ends up running a company they do not want to work at.
Holds
Ambition in founders is mostly inborn, which is why stories of a founder acquiring it during a batch are rare.
Holds