Related posts
Haley Nahman
x.com
Wrote about envy this week and confirmed I am petty (thanks for the topical inspiration @ContraPoints)
petty confirmed envy
The the words it uses that this site has seen
least often elsewhere. Posts are matched on those words alone —
nothing here is a summary of this one.
Sources
All Writing Blog x.com YouTube Korrents GitHub Newsletter
Top people
Scott Hanselman
Derek Thompson
Simon Willison
Visakan Veerasamy
Rob Henderson
Adam Tooze
Arvid Kahl
Mark Nottingham
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Jasmine Sun
Nat Friedman
Annie Jacobsen
Showing Profile →
Show everything
Hiding Show them again
Show them again
Further back ↓
Hiding Show them again
18 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
17 September
Singaporean writer and author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD; blogs at visakanv.com about ambition, writing and thinking in public.
I could do 5-10 minutes of standup about how I’m not into feet but I kinda envy feet guys sometimes. such clarity of wanting these guys have. and it doesn’t seem very mimetic. many alleged desires are quite contagious, but feet don’t seem to be. and have you seen their wiki?? Related
16 September
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
Envy and competition is often disguised as a debate about politics and progress: robkhenderson.com
Quoting @TwinOfTiger The Sydney Sweeney thing is hilarious cos this generation (generation as in current norms not age) uses politics to mask jealousy. Society needs to go back to open hating. Own it and stop tryna trick somebody 😂😂 Related
15 September
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
x.com Kat uses career envy as a signal. If someone's path makes you jealous, that is data about what you want. Kat Excellence writes at https://t.co/RoNpJ113Fq Full episode: Related
YouTube Short Use career envy as a signal Related
14 September
Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
From one piece
Bad Feelings
2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
11 September
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
Their words
Rather than thinking of this set of preferences as incoherent, or merely the expression of a sectional petty bourgeois interest, it makes more sense, surely, to view it as a coherent set of anti-systemic views.
Show the whole quote
adamtooze.substack.com
6 September
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
“Tool envy” (and its absence) will be the defining characteristic of successful experts in the future. Quoting @awesomekling Over the coming years, more and more people will see parts of their expertise replicated by AI, and many of them are going to be extremely upset about it and shame you for thinking it's neat. The software profession is in the middle of this right now, and it's pretty ugly. It's coming to a lot of o… Related
29 June
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
19 May
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Alternatives for the EDIT tool of LLM agents EDIT: of course this was already done in the past! I had little doubts but people just confirmed me about it on Twitter :) But, keep reading: the CRC32 compromise at the end is an interesting tradeoff, and this is a goo…
LLMs Related
12 October 2025
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
12 March 2025
Co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021; now an independent investor and funder of open technical projects, including the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.
Exciting PlasticList update: We were honored to work with @bobaguys to identify and eliminate the sources of BPA contamination, and their teas are now BPA-free! They have fully transitioned to BPA-free receipt paper, which PlasticList confirmed to be BPA-free through independent lab testing. They have also switched to brown sugar in BPA-free packaging. We have been impressed with their commitment to get to the bottom of the issue and move fast to remove BPA from their supply chain. If you want healthy and delicious tea, I highly recommend Boba Guys! Quoting @natfriedman Advice for Food Companies Since we launched PlasticList, we’ve been heartened to have quite a few food companies reach out and ask for help interpreting their results and tracking down and eliminating their contamination. I’ve had calls with a bunch of these. I am happy to report that no food compa… Related
22 March 2024
Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.
Russia America
Their words
there is an absolutely existential flaw in the system, which Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta confirmed with me, which is that our ICBMs do not have enough range. If we launch a counterattack against, say, North Korea, our ICBMs must fly over Russia. They must fly over Russia.
Show the whole quote
youtube.com
15 April 2023
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
Do y’all remember how no matter how you started a Pandora station you’d always get country within an hour? It would play a Tom Petty and bam! Gateway to country! Anyway I’m at a cover band show where Tom Petty is sandwiched between the Smiths and the Pixies Related
Nothing matches. Show everything
A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one
sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
korrents.com .
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said.
The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in
korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who
else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
Got it
About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked
article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
Got it