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Read this korrent: Most of the world fails to solve problems because of pride, excessive regulation, and low standards for what counts as a problem worth fixing.
Most of the world fails to solve problems because of pride, excessive regulation, and low standards for what counts as a problem worth fixing.
Last stated 2 months ago
1 Sept 2026
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Pieter Levels — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Nobody falls in love with solutions at the start of a career, and the people who stayed in love with problems are the ones this technology enables. — tap to centre the map on it
Nobody falls in love with solutions at the start of a career, and the people who stayed in love with problems are the ones this technology enables.
Last stated a year ago
18 Sept 2025
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Tobias Lütke — holds since 2025-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The world's consumption problems can be solved if we choose to. — tap to centre the map on it
The world's consumption problems can be solved if we choose to.
Last stated 19 years ago
2 Jan 2008
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Jared Diamond — holds since 2008-01-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Problems become far harder to solve the longer they are allowed to linger unaddressed. — tap to centre the map on it
Problems become far harder to solve the longer they are allowed to linger unaddressed.
Last stated 3 years ago
3 Jan 2024
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Tobias Sjösten — holds since 2024-01-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Problem discovery is not very hard, and product managers who spend a lot of time on it neglect solution discovery, the real work they are paid for. — tap to centre the map on it
Problem discovery is not very hard, and product managers who spend a lot of time on it neglect solution discovery, the real work they are paid for.
Last stated a month ago
10 Sept 2026
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Marty Cagan — holds since 2026-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Depending on open source you cannot fix is the frightening kind of outage, because at your own scale there may be nobody in the world you can pay for an answer. — tap to centre the map on it
Depending on open source you cannot fix is the frightening kind of outage, because at your own scale there may be nobody in the world you can pay for an answer.
Last stated 7 months ago
1 Apr 2026
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Thuan Pham — holds since 2026-04-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Build on a customer problem somebody viscerally feels and would pay to fix, because it is very easy to imagine one that nobody does. — tap to centre the map on it
Build on a customer problem somebody viscerally feels and would pay to fix, because it is very easy to imagine one that nobody does.
Last stated 3 months ago
31 Jul 2026
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Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-07-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Most workplace problems have more than one person contributing to them, not a single culprit. — tap to centre the map on it
Most workplace problems have more than one person contributing to them, not a single culprit.
Last stated 3 years ago
25 Feb 2024
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Ben Kuhn — holds since 2024-02-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: There is no phase of life in which the problems are finally solved, and waiting to reach one is the mistake. — tap to centre the map on it
There is no phase of life in which the problems are finally solved, and waiting to reach one is the mistake.
Last stated 5 years ago
by 15 Aug 2021
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Oliver Burkeman — holds since 2021-08-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute. — tap to centre the map on it
A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute.
Last stated a month ago
22 Sept 2026
TC
Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-09-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it. — tap to centre the map on it
A broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it.
Last stated 2 months ago
1 Sept 2026
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Radley Balko — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment. — tap to centre the map on it
A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment.
Last stated 2 months ago
31 Aug 2026
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Daniel W. Drezner — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A government debt crisis is measurable and therefore visible well in advance; the diagnostic is mechanical rather than a matter of judgement. — tap to centre the map on it
A government debt crisis is measurable and therefore visible well in advance; the diagnostic is mechanical rather than a matter of judgement.
Last stated 2 months ago
21 Aug 2026
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Ray Dalio — holds since 2026-08-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A government's debt dynamics are a household's or a company's, except that it can print money and tax -- and those two powers are what change the ending. — tap to centre the map on it
A government's debt dynamics are a household's or a company's, except that it can print money and tax -- and those two powers are what change the ending.
Last stated 2 months ago
21 Aug 2026
RD
Ray Dalio — holds since 2026-08-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A longer average debt maturity protects a government from temporary interest-rate spikes and gives it more time to adjust to permanent rate increases. — tap to centre the map on it
A longer average debt maturity protects a government from temporary interest-rate spikes and gives it more time to adjust to permanent rate increases.
Last stated 4 years ago
1 Jun 2022
OB
Olivier Blanchard — holds since 2022-06-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A healthy democracy engages with protesters to hear their claims — tap to centre the map on it
A healthy democracy engages with protesters to hear their claims
Last stated 5 years ago
9 Feb 2022
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2022-02-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Authoritarian order is more natural to human societies than democracy, and may prove more durable over time. — tap to centre the map on it
Authoritarian order is more natural to human societies than democracy, and may prove more durable over time.
Last stated 8 months ago
1 Mar 2026
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Tanner Greer — holds since 2026-03-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Chamberlain's choice at Munich was understandable rather than craven: no democratic leader in 1938 could have taken his country to war against 92% of its population. — tap to centre the map on it
Chamberlain's choice at Munich was understandable rather than craven: no democratic leader in 1938 could have taken his country to war against 92% of its population.
Last stated a year ago
24 May 2025
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James Holland — holds since 2025-05-24 — tap for who they are
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