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← Recognizing the system you are in is the first step in subverting it.
14 connected korrents · 14 moments from 18 Jul 2019 to 17 Aug 2026.
Everything filed under motivation
motivation
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ambition
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discipline
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language learning
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Read this korrent: Recognizing the system you are in is the first step in subverting it.
Recognizing the system you are in is the first step in subverting it.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Nov 2024
AC
Alistair Croll — holds since 2024-11-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Duolingo's real competence is motivation and habit formation, and language learning was only the first thing it applied that to. — tap to centre the map on it
Duolingo's real competence is motivation and habit formation, and language learning was only the first thing it applied that to.
Last stated a year ago
5 Oct 2025
AC
Albert Cheng — holds since 2025-10-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: For a certain kind of mind there is a seductiveness in learning a system that gets mistaken for understanding. — tap to centre the map on it
For a certain kind of mind there is a seductiveness in learning a system that gets mistaken for understanding.
Last stated 7 months ago
7 Apr 2026
MN
Michael Nielsen — holds since 2026-04-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language is a set of skills to be built, not a body of facts to be known. — tap to centre the map on it
A language is a set of skills to be built, not a body of facts to be known.
Last stated 5 years ago
19 Aug 2021
LL
Luca Lampariello — holds since 2021-08-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Removing translation from the process is what lets you think in the language from the beginning. — tap to centre the map on it
Removing translation from the process is what lets you think in the language from the beginning.
Last stated 7 years ago
by 18 Jul 2019
GW
Gabriel Wyner — holds since 2019-07-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Reading code and writing code are separate skills, and being able to read a language is no evidence you could write it. — tap to centre the map on it
Reading code and writing code are separate skills, and being able to read a language is no evidence you could write it.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Mar 2025
TH
ThePrimeagen — holds since 2025-03-22 — 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
CH
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
AS
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
TH
Thomas Hobbes — holds since c. 1651 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "If you're not growing, you're dying" is truer of the person than of the company. — tap to centre the map on it
"If you're not growing, you're dying" is truer of the person than of the company.
Last stated 9 months ago
25 Jan 2026
JC
Jason Cohen — holds since 2026-01-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us. — tap to centre the map on it
A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us.
Last stated a year ago
3 Aug 2025
WM
William MacAskill — holds since 2025-08-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company can run at a fast pace sustainably without constant overwork or undue stress — tap to centre the map on it
A company can run at a fast pace sustainably without constant overwork or undue stress
Last stated 4 years ago
4 Nov 2022
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2022-11-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A feeling outlasts the memory of what caused it: amnesic patients stayed sad long after they had forgotten the sad film they were shown. — tap to centre the map on it
A feeling outlasts the memory of what caused it: amnesic patients stayed sad long after they had forgotten the sad film they were shown.
Last stated 2 months ago
17 Aug 2026
RA
Ralph Adolphs — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A habit only survives difficulty if the person enjoys it, which makes enjoyment a better predictor of persistence than discipline. — tap to centre the map on it
A habit only survives difficulty if the person enjoys it, which makes enjoyment a better predictor of persistence than discipline.
Last stated 10 months ago
1 Jan 2026
JC
James Clear — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A person cannot expect to find lasting balance between conflicting parts of their psychology. — tap to centre the map on it
A person cannot expect to find lasting balance between conflicting parts of their psychology.
Last stated 5 months ago
11 Jun 2026
SC
Sasha Chapin — holds since 2026-06-11 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2015 to today — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are