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14 Aug 2026
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Travis Kalanick — holds since 2026-08-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: New ideas usually fail outright or require drastic changes before they can succeed. — tap to centre the map on it New ideas usually fail outright or require drastic changes before they can succeed. Last stated 2 years ago
9 Aug 2024
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Steve Coast — holds since 2024-08-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Once a technology is released into the world, it becomes very difficult to control. — tap to centre the map on it Once a technology is released into the world, it becomes very difficult to control. Last stated 8 months ago
28 Feb 2026
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Jasmine Sun — holds since 2026-02-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Hostility to a new technology comes from people whose power rests on the old one, because the new technology reorders who holds status. — tap to centre the map on it Hostility to a new technology comes from people whose power rests on the old one, because the new technology reorders who holds status. Last stated 5 years ago
25 Jan 2022
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Marc Andreessen — holds since 2022-01-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Not all change is progress, but there is no progress without change — tap to centre the map on it Not all change is progress, but there is no progress without change
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John Wooden — holds since c. 2001 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Raising your tolerance for change and being willing to embrace it is very important. — tap to centre the map on it Raising your tolerance for change and being willing to embrace it is very important. Last stated a month ago
10 Sept 2026
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Ami Vora — holds since 2026-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An obvious technological shift can take so long to arrive that observers give up expecting it, only for it to happen right after they stop watching for it. — tap to centre the map on it An obvious technological shift can take so long to arrive that observers give up expecting it, only for it to happen right after they stop watching for it. Last stated a month ago
23 Sept 2026
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Horace Dediu — holds since 2026-09-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Making a change within a complex system tends to produce unforeseen and unintended consequences. — tap to centre the map on it Making a change within a complex system tends to produce unforeseen and unintended consequences. Last stated 4 years ago
30 May 2022
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Steve Coast — holds since 2022-05-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Change from already-capable AI is inevitable no matter how the frontier is paced, though it will be uneven and not all at once. — tap to centre the map on it Change from already-capable AI is inevitable no matter how the frontier is paced, though it will be uneven and not all at once. Last stated a month ago
18 Sept 2026
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Ethan Mollick — holds since 2026-09-18 — 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 2 months ago
14 Aug 2026
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Susan Kare — holds since 2026-08-14 — 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: A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness — tap to centre the map on it A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness Last stated 14 years ago
8 Jan 2013
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Daniel Dennett — holds since 2013-01-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. — tap to centre the map on it A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. Last stated 10 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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Jason Lemkin — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. Last stated 3 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. — tap to centre the map on it A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. Last stated a month ago
17 Sept 2026
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Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-09-17 — 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
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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
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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
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2022-11-04 — tap for who they are
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The final obstacle to any new technology is resistance to change, so you have to deliver an overwhelming amount of progress to get the change through.
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New ideas usually fail outright or require drastic changes before they can succeed.
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Once a technology is released into the world, it becomes very difficult to control.
Holds
Hostility to a new technology comes from people whose power rests on the old one, because the new technology reorders who holds status.
Holds
Not all change is progress, but there is no progress without change
Last stated c. 2001
Holds
Raising your tolerance for change and being willing to embrace it is very important.
Holds
An obvious technological shift can take so long to arrive that observers give up expecting it, only for it to happen right after they stop watching for it.
Holds
Making a change within a complex system tends to produce unforeseen and unintended consequences.
Holds
Change from already-capable AI is inevitable no matter how the frontier is paced, though it will be uneven and not all at once.
Holds
A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work.
Holds
A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
Last stated c. 1959
Holds
A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness
Holds
A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.
Holds
A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to.
Holds
A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.
Holds
"If you're not growing, you're dying" is truer of the person than of the company.
Holds
A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us.
Holds
A company can run at a fast pace sustainably without constant overwork or undue stress
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