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← To get something rare and valuable in a career, you must offer something rare and valuable
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Read this korrent: To get something rare and valuable in a career, you must offer something rare and valuable
To get something rare and valuable in a career, you must offer something rare and valuable
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Cal Newport — holds since c. 2012 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company needs someone who cares about the outcome above the effort — tap to centre the map on it
A company needs someone who cares about the outcome above the effort
Last stated 2 years ago
19 Mar 2025
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-03-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Anyone can become wealthy; it is merely a question of education and desire. — tap to centre the map on it
Anyone can become wealthy; it is merely a question of education and desire.
Last stated 7 years ago
28 Dec 2019
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Naval Ravikant — holds since 2019-12-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Be professionally curious about a few topics and idly curious about many more. — tap to centre the map on it
Be professionally curious about a few topics and idly curious about many more.
Last stated 3 years ago
1 Jul 2023
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Paul Graham — holds since 2023-07-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: To do anything exceptional you have to bet on yourself. — tap to centre the map on it
To do anything exceptional you have to bet on yourself.
Last stated a year ago
22 Sept 2025
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Naval Ravikant — holds since 2025-09-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The key to success is to strive for a lot and fail well — tap to centre the map on it
The key to success is to strive for a lot and fail well
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Ray Dalio — holds since c. 2017 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A department inside a company sometimes needs a refounding event. — tap to centre the map on it
A department inside a company sometimes needs a refounding event.
Last stated 2 months ago
15 Sept 2026
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Tobias Lütke — holds since 2026-09-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: In the ways people show up online, the better question is what they can offer someone rather than what they can ask of that person. — tap to centre the map on it
In the ways people show up online, the better question is what they can offer someone rather than what they can ask of that person.
Last stated 7 months ago
25 Mar 2026
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Flora Guo — holds since 2026-03-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A better school looks more like the old-fashioned schoolhouse than like project work; the more school resembles free play, the worse it gets. — tap to centre the map on it
A better school looks more like the old-fashioned schoolhouse than like project work; the more school resembles free play, the worse it gets.
Last stated 5 months ago
27 May 2026
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Scott H. Young — holds since 2026-05-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A billboard buys only short, shallow awareness, so it does not work for education or for a startup before product-market fit. — tap to centre the map on it
A billboard buys only short, shallow awareness, so it does not work for education or for a startup before product-market fit.
Last stated 5 months ago
9 Jun 2026
EK
Emily Kramer — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A clear explanation alone does not usually make people understand a scientific idea. — tap to centre the map on it
A clear explanation alone does not usually make people understand a scientific idea.
Last stated 9 years ago
3 Dec 2017
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Alom Shaha — holds since 2017-12-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A CEO cannot be a calibrated interviewer for every role, so insisting on interviewing every candidate makes hiring worse rather than better. — tap to centre the map on it
A CEO cannot be a calibrated interviewer for every role, so insisting on interviewing every candidate makes hiring worse rather than better.
Last stated 2 years ago
17 Dec 2024
CM
Charity Majors — holds since 2024-12-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company hiring a designer is not hiring a politician or spokesperson, so it should just get into the design work. — tap to centre the map on it
A company hiring a designer is not hiring a politician or spokesperson, so it should just get into the design work.
Last stated a month ago
29 Sept 2026
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Danny Martinez — holds since 2026-09-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company is not sensitive to the few thousand dollars a candidate is afraid to ask for, because the fully-loaded cost of employing them dwarfs it. — tap to centre the map on it
A company is not sensitive to the few thousand dollars a candidate is afraid to ask for, because the fully-loaded cost of employing them dwarfs it.
Last stated 15 years ago
23 Jan 2012
PM
Patrick McKenzie — holds since 2012-01-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A persistently rising dividend yield eventually forces capital appreciation as the market rerates the stock. — tap to centre the map on it
A persistently rising dividend yield eventually forces capital appreciation as the market rerates the stock.
Last stated 8 months ago
3 Mar 2026
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Sanjay Bakshi — holds since 2026-03-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A proof and an explanation are different things, and a theorem can stay an unsolved expository problem long after it is proved. — tap to centre the map on it
A proof and an explanation are different things, and a theorem can stay an unsolved expository problem long after it is proved.
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 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
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