17 connected korrents · 16 moments on record from 12 Feb 2010 to 14 Aug 2026.
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Knowledge is cheap and easily acquired; what a person actually needs is curiosity, self-efficacy, perseverance, perspective and hope.
Last stated 12 Jul 2022 · 4 years ago
Holds AMAdam Mastroianni
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Merging back what a copy of yourself learned elsewhere is dangerous: the knowledge you pull in can carry hidden goals and take you over.
Last stated 26 Sept 2025 · 11 months ago
Holds RSRichard Sutton
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Expertise is an enormous accumulated library of small facts and skills, which is why no method can shortcut the sheer volume of learning it takes.
Last stated 27 May 2026 · 3 months ago
Holds SYScott H. Young
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“Work on what you know” is the worst advice there is: knowledge can be acquired, but what you love cannot be changed.
Last stated 28 Jul 2026 · a month ago
Holds BSBlake Scholl
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Knowledge that lives only in a book or a machine is not knowledge you have.
Last stated 18 Nov 2025 · 10 months ago
Holds SYScott H. Young
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Cheap intelligence does not make agency cheap, and these tools may mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and time.
Last stated 14 Aug 2026 · 4 weeks ago
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Sunil Pai
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In a dysfunctional society the loss of working knowledge becomes routine, and attempts to reverse-engineer what was lost do not always succeed.
Last stated 19 Aug 2020 · 6 years ago
Holds SBSamo Burja
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Process knowledge — the experience of actually making things — matters more than tools or blueprints.
Last stated 1 Jan 2020 · 7 years ago
Holds DWDan Wang
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Almost all of education is organised around knowledge and skills, which are exactly the part that does not last.
Last stated 12 Jul 2022 · 4 years ago
Holds AMAdam Mastroianni
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Same subject: taste
A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.
Last stated 6 Aug 2026 · a month ago
Holds GSGeorge Saunders
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Same subject: taste
A lot of people can match a framework for taste; almost nobody can create one, and creating one is the rare skill.
Last stated 16 Oct 2025 · 11 months ago
Holds DFDylan Field
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Same subject: taste
A product needs a soul, and for that it needs one person of great taste who is its living, breathing aspect and gets furious about every small detail.
Last stated 12 Feb 2010 · 17 years ago
Holds KSKarri Saarinen
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Same subject: design
A blank chat box is lazy: it violates the first rule of a good user experience, that it is obvious what you can do.
Last stated 12 May 2025 · a year ago
Holds JZJulie Zhuo
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Same subject: design
A company deserves everyone in it, the chief executive included, to spend as much time as possible in their zone of genius — which is an org design problem.
Last stated 23 Mar 2025 · a year ago
Holds RVRahul Vohra
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Same subject: design
A computer meant for anyone has to be understandable without a manual, and it has to be friendly.
Last stated 14 Aug 2026 · 4 weeks ago
Holds SKSusan Kare
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Same subject: Ruby
For a web developer Linux is simply better than the Mac: closer to what you deploy on, with phenomenal tooling and a reproducible setup.
Last stated 8 Apr 2026 · 5 months ago
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David Heinemeier Hansson
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Same subject: Ruby
Ruby is a luxury language, the Coco Chanel of programming, and 99% of web applications can afford it because their real cost is people, not CPU.
Last stated 12 Jul 2025 · a year ago
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David Heinemeier Hansson
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Same subject: Ruby
Ruby is probably his forever language, and he still tries new languages to widen the aperture.
Last stated 1 Jul 2025 · a year ago
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David Heinemeier Hansson