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Read this korrent: Stories are always deliberately constructed by their author, not something that emerges on its own.
Stories are always deliberately constructed by their author, not something that emerges on its own.
Last stated 4 months ago
1 Jul 2026
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Lincoln Michel — holds since 2026-07-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Good storytelling doesn't require inventing something entirely new; it can be built from existing material. — tap to centre the map on it
Good storytelling doesn't require inventing something entirely new; it can be built from existing material.
Last stated 2 years ago
29 Jan 2025
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Ken Norton — holds since 2025-01-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: People have always told stories in chronological order, not as permanent posts that are publicly judged. — tap to centre the map on it
People have always told stories in chronological order, not as permanent posts that are publicly judged.
Last stated 7 months ago
12 Apr 2026
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Evan Spiegel — holds since 2026-04-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If a press or prize does not want AI-written stories, writers should respect that. — tap to centre the map on it
If a press or prize does not want AI-written stories, writers should respect that.
Last stated 4 months ago
8 Jul 2026
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Karen Lord — holds since 2026-07-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Unfamiliar story structures from writers outside US/UK culture are not wrong, only unfamiliar. — tap to centre the map on it
Unfamiliar story structures from writers outside US/UK culture are not wrong, only unfamiliar.
Last stated a year ago
23 Jun 2025
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Karen Lord — holds since 2025-06-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Fiction and nonfiction are not arbitrary categories. — tap to centre the map on it
Fiction and nonfiction are not arbitrary categories.
Last stated 13 years ago
1 Dec 2013
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Errol Morris — holds since 2013-12-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A writer's audience does not carry from one book to the next: every book is another startup you have to make happen from scratch. — tap to centre the map on it
A writer's audience does not carry from one book to the next: every book is another startup you have to make happen from scratch.
Last stated 11 months ago
15 Dec 2025
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Michael Lewis — holds since 2025-12-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: All great stories are true stories, even if they are fiction. — tap to centre the map on it
All great stories are true stories, even if they are fiction.
Last stated 4 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Jason Yuan — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A story can be pure fiction and still give a person an identity and a sense of meaning — tap to centre the map on it
A story can be pure fiction and still give a person an identity and a sense of meaning
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Yuval Noah Harari — holds since c. 2018–2019 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A CEO who sends out an AI-written strategy memo is modelling that it is fine to outsource thinking and strategy. — tap to centre the map on it
A CEO who sends out an AI-written strategy memo is modelling that it is fine to outsource thinking and strategy.
Last stated a month ago
27 Sept 2026
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Molly Graham — holds since 2026-09-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A human-authorship certification should not allow partial AI use. — tap to centre the map on it
A human-authorship certification should not allow partial AI use.
Last stated 5 months ago
1 Jun 2026
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Nick Harkaway — holds since 2026-06-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent. — tap to centre the map on it
A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent.
Last stated 4 months ago
30 Jun 2026
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Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A chatbot's voice should not replace a thinking human voice where truth matters — tap to centre the map on it
A chatbot's voice should not replace a thinking human voice where truth matters
Last stated 3 years ago
8 Jul 2023
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Douglas Hofstadter — holds since 2023-07-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A developer cannot be productive and competitive today without using AI — tap to centre the map on it
A developer cannot be productive and competitive today without using AI
Last stated 3 weeks ago
19 Oct 2026
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Troy Hunt — holds since 2026-10-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A job that consists of approving AI output has no flow channel at all, because the challenge has been exported to the machine and only the vigilance remains. — tap to centre the map on it
A job that consists of approving AI output has no flow channel at all, because the challenge has been exported to the machine and only the vigilance remains.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
21 Oct 2026
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Jakob Nielsen — holds since 2026-10-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work. — tap to centre the map on it
A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work.
Last stated 3 months ago
14 Aug 2026
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Susan Kare — holds since 2026-08-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A culture that is uncompromising but also kind and supportive is the most fertile ground for creativity. — tap to centre the map on it
A culture that is uncompromising but also kind and supportive is the most fertile ground for creativity.
Last stated 7 months ago
12 Apr 2026
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Evan Spiegel — holds since 2026-04-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them — tap to centre the map on it
A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
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Isaac Asimov — holds since c. 1959 — 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 2013 to today (stretched back to the oldest claim here) — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are