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Read this korrent: When someone has a problem, you should solve the problem first and deal with everything else later.
When someone has a problem, you should solve the problem first and deal with everything else later.
Last stated today
8 Oct 2026
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Sunil Pai — holds since 2026-10-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Problems become far harder to solve the longer they are allowed to linger unaddressed. — tap to centre the map on it
Problems become far harder to solve the longer they are allowed to linger unaddressed.
Last stated 3 years ago
3 Jan 2024
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Tobias Sjösten — holds since 2024-01-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: You should build by solving only the next problem in front of you; most people fail because they look too far ahead. — tap to centre the map on it
You should build by solving only the next problem in front of you; most people fail because they look too far ahead.
Last stated 2 years ago
20 Aug 2024
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Pieter Levels — holds since 2024-08-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Catching a problem early makes it easier to solve than catching it late. — tap to centre the map on it
Catching a problem early makes it easier to solve than catching it late.
Last stated 2 years ago
16 Sept 2024
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Tobias Sjösten — holds since 2024-09-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: People learn best when the problem in front of them is just past the edge of what they can already do. — tap to centre the map on it
People learn best when the problem in front of them is just past the edge of what they can already do.
Last stated 11 months ago
3 Nov 2025
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Raph Koster — holds since 2025-11-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: You often only understand a problem by experiencing the journey of building a solution for it. — tap to centre the map on it
You often only understand a problem by experiencing the journey of building a solution for it.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
18 Sept 2026
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Mario Zechner — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: When you try to solve one problem, you often create another. — tap to centre the map on it
When you try to solve one problem, you often create another.
Last stated 3 days ago
5 Oct 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-10-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Many first-time entrepreneurs mistakenly build a solution before identifying the problem it is meant to solve. — tap to centre the map on it
Many first-time entrepreneurs mistakenly build a solution before identifying the problem it is meant to solve.
Last stated 2 years ago
9 Aug 2024
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Tobias Sjösten — holds since 2024-08-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: There is no phase of life in which the problems are finally solved, and waiting to reach one is the mistake. — tap to centre the map on it
There is no phase of life in which the problems are finally solved, and waiting to reach one is the mistake.
Last stated 5 years ago
by 15 Aug 2021
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Oliver Burkeman — holds since 2021-08-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "I don't know" becomes a kind of superpower when you can work with Claude Code to figure things out. — tap to centre the map on it
"I don't know" becomes a kind of superpower when you can work with Claude Code to figure things out.
Last stated 7 months ago
19 Mar 2026
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Kris Puckett — holds since 2026-03-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A coding agent does not learn from its mistakes the way a person does -- it repeats the same error indefinitely unless a human notices and writes it down. — tap to centre the map on it
A coding agent does not learn from its mistakes the way a person does -- it repeats the same error indefinitely unless a human notices and writes it down.
Last stated 6 months ago
25 Mar 2026
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Mario Zechner — holds since 2026-03-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A coding-agent company should not train its own model: it has to stay neutral ground for models to compete on. — tap to centre the map on it
A coding-agent company should not train its own model: it has to stay neutral ground for models to compete on.
Last stated a month ago
3 Sept 2026
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Dax Raad — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A model can now port essentially any codebase from one programming language to another, work that used to take a team over a year. — tap to centre the map on it
A model can now port essentially any codebase from one programming language to another, work that used to take a team over a year.
Last stated 2 months ago
27 Jul 2026
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Boris Cherny — holds since 2026-07-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Agents are the new compilers that compile intent into fast software. — tap to centre the map on it
Agents are the new compilers that compile intent into fast software.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
12 Sept 2026
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Guillermo Rauch — holds since 2026-09-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI acceleration threatens 'less software': without the constraint of scarce hours, even 37signals will likely build too much. — tap to centre the map on it
AI acceleration threatens 'less software': without the constraint of scarce hours, even 37signals will likely build too much.
Last stated 2 months ago
26 Jul 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-07-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A few senior individual contributors can be paid VP money and still cost less than the layered product org they replace. — tap to centre the map on it
A few senior individual contributors can be paid VP money and still cost less than the layered product org they replace.
Last stated 2 months ago
2 Aug 2026
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Tom Verrilli — holds since 2026-08-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A functionally organised engineering team seizes up at around a hundred people, because every feature then has to be negotiated against every other team's bandwidth. — tap to centre the map on it
A functionally organised engineering team seizes up at around a hundred people, because every feature then has to be negotiated against every other team's bandwidth.
Last stated 6 months ago
1 Apr 2026
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Thuan Pham — holds since 2026-04-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single departure knocks it back into maintenance. — tap to centre the map on it
A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single departure knocks it back into maintenance.
Last stated 8 years ago
14 Jul 2018
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Will Larson — holds since 2018-07-14 — tap for who they are
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