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Read this korrent: In a hundred years a proprietary textbook or encyclopedia will seem as quaint as leeches in medicine.
In a hundred years a proprietary textbook or encyclopedia will seem as quaint as leeches in medicine.
Last stated 22 years ago
21 Oct 2004
JW
Jimmy Wales — holds since 2004-10-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Technical skills and craftsmanship are as important as preserving hardware for maintaining technical history. — tap to centre the map on it
Technical skills and craftsmanship are as important as preserving hardware for maintaining technical history.
Last stated 7 years ago
by 20 Jul 2019
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Erik Spiekermann — holds since 2019-07-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The best textbooks will continue to be predominantly written by human hand rather than AI for at least the next several years. — tap to centre the map on it
The best textbooks will continue to be predominantly written by human hand rather than AI for at least the next several years.
Last stated 3 months ago
12 Aug 2026
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Nathan Lambert — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Knowledge that lives only in a book or a machine is not knowledge you have. — tap to centre the map on it
Knowledge that lives only in a book or a machine is not knowledge you have.
Last stated 12 months ago
18 Nov 2025
SY
Scott H. Young — holds since 2025-11-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Open-sourcing biology models is right in principle but has to be balanced against biosafety. — tap to centre the map on it
Open-sourcing biology models is right in principle but has to be balanced against biosafety.
Last stated 5 months ago
10 Jun 2026
MZ
Mark Zuckerberg — holds since 2026-06-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Every new drug has to beat the cheap generics that came before it, and that competition with our own back catalogue is why drug discovery gets harder over time. — tap to centre the map on it
Every new drug has to beat the cheap generics that came before it, and that competition with our own back catalogue is why drug discovery gets harder over time.
Last stated 15 years ago
8 Mar 2012
DL
Derek Lowe — holds since 2012-03-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Experienced people should not treat their knowledge as complete, especially amid rapid innovation — tap to centre the map on it
Experienced people should not treat their knowledge as complete, especially amid rapid innovation
JP
Josh Puckett — holds since c. 2026 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Other engineering fields compile deep reference books about their materials and software has nothing of the kind, not even a five-hundred-page book on how to version an API. — tap to centre the map on it
Other engineering fields compile deep reference books about their materials and software has nothing of the kind, not even a five-hundred-page book on how to version an API.
Last stated 3 months ago
29 Jul 2026
HW
Hillel Wayne — holds since 2026-07-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The insistence that any education innovation must serve everybody at once and for free is the poison that stops education innovating at all. — tap to centre the map on it
The insistence that any education innovation must serve everybody at once and for free is the poison that stops education innovating at all.
Last stated 2 months ago
31 Aug 2026
JL
Joe Liemandt — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. — tap to centre the map on it
A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither.
Last stated 2 years ago
26 Sept 2024
MM
Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.
Last stated 2 years ago
26 Sept 2024
MM
Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A contribution is a cost to the maintainer, not a gift: it is taking part, not merely using the code, that consumes a project’s scarcest resource. — tap to centre the map on it
A contribution is a cost to the maintainer, not a gift: it is taking part, not merely using the code, that consumes a project’s scarcest resource.
Last stated 5 years ago
17 Mar 2022
FV
Filippo Valsorda — holds since 2022-03-17 — tap for who they are
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Nadia Asparouhova — holds since 2019-03-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An open-weight model is already all anyone needs; it is as good as the frontier models. — tap to centre the map on it
An open-weight model is already all anyone needs; it is as good as the frontier models.
Last stated 2 months ago
26 Aug 2026
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — no longer holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: By 2027, open-weight AI models more powerful than today's frontier systems will be downloadable by any country or well-resourced non-state group. — tap to centre the map on it
By 2027, open-weight AI models more powerful than today's frontier systems will be downloadable by any country or well-resourced non-state group.
Last stated 3 months ago
19 Aug 2026
DT
Derek Thompson — holds since 2026-08-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Chinese AI companies are the clear leaders in open-weight models. — tap to centre the map on it
Chinese AI companies are the clear leaders in open-weight models.
Last stated a month ago
21 Sept 2026
NL
Nathan Lambert — holds since 2026-09-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Large AI companies have used creators' permissively-licensed work without seeking their consent or offering compensation. — tap to centre the map on it
Large AI companies have used creators' permissively-licensed work without seeking their consent or offering compensation.
Last stated 6 months ago
30 Apr 2026
AD
Anil Dash — holds since 2026-04-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: This is the best time there has ever been to be an open source maintainer. — tap to centre the map on it
This is the best time there has ever been to be an open source maintainer.
Last stated 2 months ago
26 Aug 2026
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work. — tap to centre the map on it
A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work.
Last stated 3 months ago
14 Aug 2026
SK
Susan Kare — holds since 2026-08-14 — 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 2004 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 faded, dashed ring: they no longer hold it — they changed their mind