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← Having children does more than anything else to develop your God-given talents, and humbles you.
17 connected korrents · 18 moments from 13 Dec 1968 to 19 Oct 2026. Nearly all of them are about family .
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Read this korrent: Having children does more than anything else to develop your God-given talents, and humbles you.
Having children does more than anything else to develop your God-given talents, and humbles you.
Last stated a year ago
28 Jul 2025
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Spencer Cox — holds since 2025-07-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Attitude, not the surrounding circumstances, determines how hard parenting feels. — tap to centre the map on it
Attitude, not the surrounding circumstances, determines how hard parenting feels.
Last stated a year ago
18 Sept 2025
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Nat Eliason — holds since 2025-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Costly care for two-earner couples prices families outside the top out of having children. — tap to centre the map on it
Costly care for two-earner couples prices families outside the top out of having children.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
19 Oct 2026
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Natasha Sarin — holds since 2026-10-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Having children brings a deep, profound meaning to life — tap to centre the map on it
Having children brings a deep, profound meaning to life
Last stated 2 years ago
27 Aug 2024
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2024-08-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Having children does not make people better: parental love concentrates concern on a few and leaves less of it for everyone else. — tap to centre the map on it
Having children does not make people better: parental love concentrates concern on a few and leaves less of it for everyone else.
Last stated 3 months ago
3 Aug 2026
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Paul Bloom — holds since 2026-08-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Having children is contagious: people are more likely to become parents when the people around them already are. — tap to centre the map on it
Having children is contagious: people are more likely to become parents when the people around them already are.
Last stated a year ago
1 Jul 2025
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Alice Evans — holds since 2025-07-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Having children is not a niche or selfish lifestyle choice, and people without children shouldn't bear the costs of a structure that fails everyone. — tap to centre the map on it
Having children is not a niche or selfish lifestyle choice, and people without children shouldn't bear the costs of a structure that fails everyone.
Last stated 7 months ago
6 Apr 2026
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Mari Andrew — holds since 2026-04-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Having children makes them the most interesting people to their parents — tap to centre the map on it
Having children makes them the most interesting people to their parents
Last stated 2 years ago
16 Mar 2025
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-03-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: It is impossible to configure a computer to allow meaningful web interaction without bombarding a user with addictive content. — tap to centre the map on it
It is impossible to configure a computer to allow meaningful web interaction without bombarding a user with addictive content.
Last stated 4 months ago
13 Jul 2026
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Kelsey Piper — holds since 2026-07-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A CEO grading themselves a failure for their mistakes does not help; every CEO makes thousands of mistakes — tap to centre the map on it
A CEO grading themselves a failure for their mistakes does not help; every CEO makes thousands of mistakes
Last stated 14 years ago
15 Jun 2012
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Ben Horowitz — holds since 2012-06-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A designer's assumption about where a component belongs is a personal assumption and does not mean that the market or the users will react to the component that way. — tap to centre the map on it
A designer's assumption about where a component belongs is a personal assumption and does not mean that the market or the users will react to the component that way.
Last stated 7 months ago
2 Apr 2026
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Marvin Schwaibold — holds since 2026-04-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A designer's PRs should be very small and manageable if the designer is not comfortable reviewing or writing the code themselves. — tap to centre the map on it
A designer's PRs should be very small and manageable if the designer is not comfortable reviewing or writing the code themselves.
Last stated 5 months ago
26 May 2026
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Andy Madrick — holds since 2026-05-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Calling the fall in birth rates a mystery is not humility but obscurantism: there is already a good causal account of it. — tap to centre the map on it
Calling the fall in birth rates a mystery is not humility but obscurantism: there is already a good causal account of it.
Last stated 2 months ago
20 Aug 2026
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Lyman Stone — holds since 2026-08-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero — tap to centre the map on it
A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero
Last stated 58 years ago
13 Dec 1968
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Garrett Hardin — holds since 1968-12-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A mass death does not by itself produce a boom afterwards: expecting a pandemic to renew an economy on its own misreads what followed the Black Death. — tap to centre the map on it
A mass death does not by itself produce a boom afterwards: expecting a pandemic to renew an economy on its own misreads what followed the Black Death.
Last stated 6 years ago
4 Jun 2020
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Ada Palmer — holds since 2020-06-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Argue like you are right and listen like you are wrong, with the humility to know what you do not know. — tap to centre the map on it
Argue like you are right and listen like you are wrong, with the humility to know what you do not know.
Last stated 5 months ago
9 Jun 2026
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Adam Grant — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Continuing to learn means that today's views will probably look slightly immature and naive later. — tap to centre the map on it
Continuing to learn means that today's views will probably look slightly immature and naive later.
Last stated 6 years ago
13 Oct 2020
CP
Chamath Palihapitiya — holds since 2020-10-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: People who succeed in an idea meritocracy balance assertiveness with open-mindedness, holding an independent opinion while knowing it could be wrong and being curious about it. — tap to centre the map on it
People who succeed in an idea meritocracy balance assertiveness with open-mindedness, holding an independent opinion while knowing it could be wrong and being curious about it.
Last stated 4 years ago
27 Sept 2022
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Ray Dalio — holds since 2022-09-27 — tap for who they are
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