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← People rarely act on the life advice they save; advice must be memorized and drilled to be used.
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Read this korrent: People rarely act on the life advice they save; advice must be memorized and drilled to be used.
People rarely act on the life advice they save; advice must be memorized and drilled to be used.
Last stated 5 years ago
22 Jul 2021
JS
Julian Shapiro — holds since 2021-07-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Even when advice is understood and believed, people discount it by assuming their own case is the exception. — tap to centre the map on it
Even when advice is understood and believed, people discount it by assuming their own case is the exception.
Last stated 4 years ago
14 Mar 2023
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Adam Mastroianni — holds since 2023-03-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Most advice people give is shaped by survivorship bias and cannot be reliably generalized to others. — tap to centre the map on it
Most advice people give is shaped by survivorship bias and cannot be reliably generalized to others.
Last stated 3 months ago
16 Aug 2026
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Rohit Krishnan — holds since 2026-08-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Advice should follow how people actually live, since acting wholly on professed virtue among so much evil leads to ruin — tap to centre the map on it
Advice should follow how people actually live, since acting wholly on professed virtue among so much evil leads to ruin
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Niccolò Machiavelli — holds since c. 1513–1514 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Most advice is bad: it is either obvious, true for some people but not others, or wrong — tap to centre the map on it
Most advice is bad: it is either obvious, true for some people but not others, or wrong
Last stated 2 months ago
25 Aug 2026
AM
Adam Mastroianni — holds since 2026-08-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The question to put to a young person is what they want to do, not what they want to be — the roles are a costume and asking about them is cruel. — tap to centre the map on it
The question to put to a young person is what they want to do, not what they want to be — the roles are a costume and asking about them is cruel.
Last stated 8 months ago
11 Mar 2026
JK
Jeff Kaplan — holds since 2026-03-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Avoid advice from people who advise for a living unless their advice carries a penalty — tap to centre the map on it
Avoid advice from people who advise for a living unless their advice carries a penalty
NT
Nassim Nicholas Taleb — holds since c. 2018 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Failing to follow the advice you give others is not hypocrisy. — tap to centre the map on it
Failing to follow the advice you give others is not hypocrisy.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
13 Oct 2026
JF
Jason Feifer — holds since 2026-10-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Advice is often constrained by the utterances within the advice itself. — tap to centre the map on it
Advice is often constrained by the utterances within the advice itself.
Last stated 4 years ago
26 Jan 2023
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Visakan Veerasamy — holds since 2023-01-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Being professionally offended by every little thing is no longer a dominant disposition — tap to centre the map on it
Being professionally offended by every little thing is no longer a dominant disposition
Last stated 2 years ago
6 Nov 2024
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2024-11-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Decades of warnings about an AI apocalypse do not justify much concern today. — tap to centre the map on it
Decades of warnings about an AI apocalypse do not justify much concern today.
Last stated 2 months ago
12 Sept 2026
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Paul Ford — holds since 2026-09-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Deliberately shifting a culture is far harder now that everyone can personalise their media and skip past anything they dislike. — tap to centre the map on it
Deliberately shifting a culture is far harder now that everyone can personalise their media and skip past anything they dislike.
Last stated a year ago
1 Jul 2025
AE
Alice Evans — holds since 2025-07-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out. — tap to centre the map on it
A drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out.
Last stated 3 years ago
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
Same subject: A general inclination of all humankind is a perpetual, restless desire of power after power that ends only in death — tap to centre the map on it
A general inclination of all humankind is a perpetual, restless desire of power after power that ends only in death
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Thomas Hobbes — holds since c. 1651 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A pursue-withdraw dynamic between partners is self-sustaining and does not require either person to be at fault. — tap to centre the map on it
A pursue-withdraw dynamic between partners is self-sustaining and does not require either person to be at fault.
Last stated 3 months ago
13 Aug 2026
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Terry Real — holds since 2026-08-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Attachment patterns tend to surface most clearly in the situations that carry the greatest emotional risk. — tap to centre the map on it
Attachment patterns tend to surface most clearly in the situations that carry the greatest emotional risk.
Last stated 5 months ago
11 Jun 2026
JM
Julie Menanno — holds since 2026-06-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Early childhood contact with parents shapes a person's capacity for connection in all their later relationships. — tap to centre the map on it
Early childhood contact with parents shapes a person's capacity for connection in all their later relationships.
Last stated a month ago
26 Sept 2026
MP
Maria Popova — holds since 2026-09-26 — tap for who they are
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