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Read this korrent: The present age is destroying the beautiful in life
The present age is destroying the beautiful in life
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Okakura Kakuzō — holds since c. 1906 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Photographs do not represent the world the way human perception actually experiences it. — tap to centre the map on it
Photographs do not represent the world the way human perception actually experiences it.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
10 Sept 2026
HK
Henrik Karlsson — holds since 2026-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Beauty is a valuable asset that is being lost in favor of pure functionality. — tap to centre the map on it
Beauty is a valuable asset that is being lost in favor of pure functionality.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
21 Sept 2026
ZM
Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Modern people are both more selfish and more guilt-stricken than people in the past. — tap to centre the map on it
Modern people are both more selfish and more guilt-stricken than people in the past.
Last stated 2 months ago
7 Aug 2026
DT
Derek Thompson — holds since 2026-08-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Good design is timeless: if something is ugly it cannot be the best solution, and someone will eventually find a better one. — tap to centre the map on it
Good design is timeless: if something is ugly it cannot be the best solution, and someone will eventually find a better one.
Last stated 25 years ago
1 Feb 2002
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Paul Graham — holds since 2002-02-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Humans collapse over the course of a life exactly as models do; children say shocking things because they have not overfitted yet. — tap to centre the map on it
Humans collapse over the course of a life exactly as models do; children say shocking things because they have not overfitted yet.
Last stated 12 months ago
17 Oct 2025
AK
Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-10-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Falling birth rates make a society less able to be hopeful, because nihilism creeps in when people have no stake in the future. — tap to centre the map on it
Falling birth rates make a society less able to be hopeful, because nihilism creeps in when people have no stake in the future.
Last stated a month ago
26 Aug 2026
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Modern society has become so good at optimising everything that it risks optimising away serendipity, which is a real cost and not a sentimental one. — tap to centre the map on it
Modern society has become so good at optimising everything that it risks optimising away serendipity, which is a real cost and not a sentimental one.
Last stated 6 months ago
20 Mar 2026
TT
Terence Tao — holds since 2026-03-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Our built-in emotions were tuned for a world that no longer exists, and hunger is one that now fails to guide us correctly. — tap to centre the map on it
Our built-in emotions were tuned for a world that no longer exists, and hunger is one that now fails to guide us correctly.
Last stated 10 months ago
25 Nov 2025
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Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that deviates from open standards in its data exports without documenting the deviation creates an artificial vendor lock-in. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that deviates from open standards in its data exports without documenting the deviation creates an artificial vendor lock-in.
Last stated 2 years ago
3 Mar 2025
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Tobias Sjösten — holds since 2025-03-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A performance test without an explanation of its limiting factor should be treated as unanalyzed and possibly bogus. — tap to centre the map on it
A performance test without an explanation of its limiting factor should be treated as unanalyzed and possibly bogus.
Last stated a year ago
3 Aug 2025
BG
Brendan Gregg — holds since 2025-08-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A portfolio shows that a person's work is visible, not that they are skilled. — tap to centre the map on it
A portfolio shows that a person's work is visible, not that they are skilled.
Last stated 4 months ago
26 May 2026
CB
Carlos Alexandro Becker — holds since 2026-05-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A business is more likely to fail from taking on too much complexity than from lacking resources. — tap to centre the map on it
A business is more likely to fail from taking on too much complexity than from lacking resources.
Last stated 8 years ago
29 Sept 2018
TG
Tren Griffin — holds since 2018-09-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones. — tap to centre the map on it
A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones.
Last stated 3 years ago
17 Feb 2024
AW
Adam Wiggins — holds since 2024-02-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A group of businesses only works when every one of them feeds the others, and everything that does not fit the strategy should be sold. — tap to centre the map on it
A group of businesses only works when every one of them feeds the others, and everything that does not fit the strategy should be sold.
Last stated a year ago
16 Jul 2025
JD
Jamie Dimon — holds since 2025-07-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Many well-paid software engineers fail to appreciate or understand the CSS cascade. — tap to centre the map on it
Many well-paid software engineers fail to appreciate or understand the CSS cascade.
Last stated 2 months ago
17 Aug 2026
DR
Dave Rupert — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Tailwind is a good way to build a site you're happy with, even without strong CSS skills of your own. — tap to centre the map on it
Tailwind is a good way to build a site you're happy with, even without strong CSS skills of your own.
Last stated 5 months ago
15 May 2026
JE
Julia Evans — holds since 2018-11-01 — tap for who they are
JE
Julia Evans — no longer holds since 2026-05-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A theme system's styles should be low-specificity rather than targeted directly at specific elements. — tap to centre the map on it
A theme system's styles should be low-specificity rather than targeted directly at specific elements.
Last stated 2 months ago
17 Aug 2026
DR
Dave Rupert — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are
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