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← Lack of interest, not lack of technology, is why practices like water recycling remain rare in buildings.
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20 Sept 2026
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Terence Eden — holds since 2026-09-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: We are wasting our time trying to reverse the climate crisis instead of building the technology to survive it. — tap to centre the map on it We are wasting our time trying to reverse the climate crisis instead of building the technology to survive it. Last stated 2 years ago
30 Sept 2024
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Ed Barnhart — holds since 2024-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The less is invested in a system, the more rubbish gets generated into it, piling up like a landfill over the next couple of years. — tap to centre the map on it The less is invested in a system, the more rubbish gets generated into it, piling up like a landfill over the next couple of years. Last stated 7 months ago
10 Mar 2026
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Luis Ouriach — holds since 2026-03-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: We are near the bottom of the tech tree, not the top; even the list of phases of matter keeps growing and we are starting to design new ones. — tap to centre the map on it We are near the bottom of the tech tree, not the top; even the list of phases of matter keeps growing and we are starting to design new ones. Last stated 6 months ago
7 Apr 2026
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Michael Nielsen — holds since 2026-04-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Public patience for technology that undermines community rather than strengthening it is declining. — tap to centre the map on it Public patience for technology that undermines community rather than strengthening it is declining. Last stated 4 weeks ago
9 Sept 2026
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Dan Meyer — holds since 2026-09-09 — tap for who they are
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29 Jul 2026
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Alexandr Wang — holds since 2026-07-29 — tap for who they are
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18 Apr 2024
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2024-04-18 — 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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15 Aug 2025
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Casey Handmer — holds since 2025-08-15 — tap for who they are
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9 Aug 2024
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2021-09-16 — tap for who they are
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Steve Coast — holds since 2024-08-09 — tap for who they are
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25 Oct 2023
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Anton Howes — holds since 2023-10-25 — tap for who they are
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2 Jun 2026
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Justin Jackson — holds since 2026-06-02 — tap for who they are
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10 Jan 2024
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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
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Aravind Srinivas — holds since 2024-06-19 — tap for who they are
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Thomas Hobbes — holds since c. 1651 — tap for who they are
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18 Aug 2025
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Clay Bavor — holds since 2025-08-18 — tap for who they are
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5 May 2025
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Janna Levin — holds since 2025-05-05 — tap for who they are
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8 Jun 2024
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2024-06-08 — tap for who they are
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Lack of interest, not lack of technology, is why practices like water recycling remain rare in buildings.
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We are wasting our time trying to reverse the climate crisis instead of building the technology to survive it.
Holds
The less is invested in a system, the more rubbish gets generated into it, piling up like a landfill over the next couple of years.
Holds
We are near the bottom of the tech tree, not the top; even the list of phases of matter keeps growing and we are starting to design new ones.
Holds
Public patience for technology that undermines community rather than strengthening it is declining.
Holds
The world is barely ready for this technology, and the people building it have a responsibility to prepare the world rather than only to ship.
Holds
Cooling adds nothing to what a data centre produces, which is why it is the first thing a good design deletes rather than optimises.
Holds
Effort that produces no visible improvement is being stored rather than wasted, because results arrive at a threshold instead of steadily.
Holds
With nearly free solar power, industrial processes optimised for efficiency should be redesigned to use far more power and run faster and cheaper instead.
Holds
Fear and vanity, not a lack of ideas, are what keep most people from building new things.
Holds
"Lots of anonymous people worked it out by trial and error" is never the real story of an invention: on closer investigation, identifiable people always turn out to be responsible.
Holds
A business can have market fit, real advantages, and sustained effort behind a hard product and still fail if it doesn't give customers a strong enough reason to switch from what they already use.
Holds
A drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out.
Holds
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.
Holds
A general inclination of all humankind is a perpetual, restless desire of power after power that ends only in death
Last stated c. 1651
Holds
A company working at the edge of the barely possible has to control its own technology destiny, even at the application layer.
Holds
A discovery you can see your way through to is impossible to abandon, even out of a real fear that it will be misused.
Holds
A life spent without taking bets on being early on an idea is one not lived to the fullest
Holds