17 connected korrents · 15 moments from 1 Feb 1996 to 27 Sept 2026.
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Organizations are a better hope than individuals for improving judgment, because they think more slowly and have procedures that can be controlled, while individual judgment is really hard to fix.
Last stated 12 Oct 2019 · 7 years ago
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Daniel Kahneman
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Better organizations recruit more effectively, because most people want to work for a high-quality organization
Last stated 12 Jun 2008 · 18 years ago
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Max Bazerman
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Individuals are inherently good, noble and honorable, with a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups.
Last stated 1 Feb 1996 · 31 years ago
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Steve Jobs
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Algorithms beat people at judgment, which is not intuitive but is true, so they are the first recommended remedy for noise.
Last stated 12 Oct 2019 · 7 years ago
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Daniel Kahneman
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Copying the consensus drags you towards the average, and average is not good enough — so you have to make the decisions that make sense to you even when you are completely alone in them.
Last stated 7 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Max Hodak
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Disasters come from organisational conditions, not from bad individuals, so blaming a person prevents the fix.
Last stated 13 Jan 2013 · 14 years ago
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Wayne Hale
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An excellent organisation is significantly more likely to succeed than a weaker one, so organisational strength belongs in the decision about where to give.
Last stated 17 Dec 2014 · 12 years ago
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Elie Hassenfeld
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A future where agents run and improve an organisation is impossible unless humans can first see and understand the system themselves.
Last stated 22 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
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Nicole Forsgren
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People judge an organisation by the humans they deal with, because judging other people is the task evolution equipped them for.
Last stated 9 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago
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Rory Sutherland
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Same subject: optimism
A busted computer is not a calamity of data loss or a long restore process in the modern world
Last stated 24 Nov 2025 · 10 months ago
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David Heinemeier Hansson
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Same subject: optimism
A lot of jobs will probably be created because of AI.
Last stated 27 Sept 2026 · 2 weeks ago
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Molly Graham
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Same subject: optimism
A prisoner who lost faith in his own future was doomed
Last stated c. 1946–1992
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Viktor Frankl
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Same subject: agency
Access to AI will become a fundamental driver of the economy, and may eventually be considered a fundamental human right.
Last stated 23 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Sam Altman
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Same subject: agency
AI increases productivity by boosting efficiency, and greater productivity means greater prosperity.
Last stated 25 Sept 2026 · 2 weeks ago
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Mr. Money Mustache
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Same subject: agency
Decolonization is truly the creation of new men
Last stated c. 1961
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Frantz Fanon
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Same subject: team size
A few senior individual contributors can be paid VP money and still cost less than the layered product org they replace.
Last stated 2 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Tom Verrilli
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Same subject: team size
A functionally organised engineering team seizes up at around a hundred people, because every feature then has to be negotiated against every other team's bandwidth.
Last stated 1 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago
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Thuan Pham
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Same subject: team size
A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single departure knocks it back into maintenance.
Last stated 14 Jul 2018 · 8 years ago
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Will Larson