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← Success is peace of mind from knowing you made the effort to do the best you are capable of
15 connected korrents · 13 moments from 15 Jun 2012 to 3 Sept 2026.
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Read this korrent: Success is peace of mind from knowing you made the effort to do the best you are capable of
Success is peace of mind from knowing you made the effort to do the best you are capable of
JW
John Wooden — holds since c. 2001 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Success is probably measured wrongly when it is judged by the amount of output or the quality of that output. — tap to centre the map on it
Success is probably measured wrongly when it is judged by the amount of output or the quality of that output.
Last stated 3 months ago
21 Jul 2026
PS
Pablo Stanley — holds since 2026-07-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Success in America is American-made, not self-made: it rests on the country's principles and the generosity of Americans — tap to centre the map on it
Success in America is American-made, not self-made: it rests on the country's principles and the generosity of Americans
Last stated 5 years ago
13 Aug 2021
AS
Arnold Schwarzenegger — holds since 2021-08-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Success in growth is the output of a lot of failures, so the real constraint is how much time you have left to fail in. — tap to centre the map on it
Success in growth is the output of a lot of failures, so the real constraint is how much time you have left to fail in.
Last stated 2 years ago
19 Jan 2025
EV
Elena Verna — holds since 2025-01-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Industriousness and enthusiasm are the cornerstones of success, with faith and patience at the top — tap to centre the map on it
Industriousness and enthusiasm are the cornerstones of success, with faith and patience at the top
JW
John Wooden — holds since c. 2001 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Happiness is a skill you develop, like nutrition and fitness, not something you are handed. — tap to centre the map on it
Happiness is a skill you develop, like nutrition and fitness, not something you are handed.
Last stated 6 years ago
12 Mar 2021
NR
Naval Ravikant — holds since 2021-03-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Success takes two things: knowing what the best decisions are and having the courage to do them. — tap to centre the map on it
Success takes two things: knowing what the best decisions are and having the courage to do them.
Last stated 4 years ago
27 Sept 2022
RD
Ray Dalio — holds since 2022-09-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number. — tap to centre the map on it
A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number.
Last stated 3 months ago
26 Jun 2026
NB
Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year. — tap to centre the map on it
A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year.
Last stated a month ago
3 Sept 2026
DR
Dax Raad — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A carmaker's claim to be the safest is mostly an artefact of comparing a new car against a fleet average twelve years old. — tap to centre the map on it
A carmaker's claim to be the safest is mostly an artefact of comparing a new car against a fleet average twelve years old.
Last stated 3 years ago
19 Dec 2023
PK
Philip Koopman — holds since 2023-12-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A CEO grading themselves a failure for their mistakes does not help; every CEO makes thousands of mistakes — tap to centre the map on it
A CEO grading themselves a failure for their mistakes does not help; every CEO makes thousands of mistakes
Last stated 14 years ago
15 Jun 2012
BH
Ben Horowitz — holds since 2012-06-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A designer's assumption about where a component belongs is a personal assumption and does not mean that the market or the users will react to the component that way. — tap to centre the map on it
A designer's assumption about where a component belongs is a personal assumption and does not mean that the market or the users will react to the component that way.
Last stated 6 months ago
2 Apr 2026
MS
Marvin Schwaibold — holds since 2026-04-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A designer's PRs should be very small and manageable if the designer is not comfortable reviewing or writing the code themselves. — tap to centre the map on it
A designer's PRs should be very small and manageable if the designer is not comfortable reviewing or writing the code themselves.
Last stated 5 months ago
26 May 2026
AM
Andy Madrick — holds since 2026-05-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next. — tap to centre the map on it
"Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next.
Last stated 10 months ago
25 Nov 2025
IS
Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from. — tap to centre the map on it
A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from.
Last stated 7 months ago
13 Mar 2026
DP
Dylan Patel — holds since 2026-03-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A model's capability is now a function of how much money you spend on it, so asking what a model can do means nothing until you name a budget. — tap to centre the map on it
A model's capability is now a function of how much money you spend on it, so asking what a model can do means nothing until you name a budget.
Last stated 3 months ago
26 Jun 2026
NB
Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — 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 2012 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