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Visakan Veerasamy Singaporean writer and author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD; blogs at visakanv.com about ambition, writing and thinking in public.
Alexey Guzey Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.

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Dean W. Ball x.com 3 Sept Astra is a remarkable piece of technology. Earlier agents often tried to dampen my ambitions—they’d push me to do “pilots” or “proofs of concept.” Then agents started meeting my ambitions. Astra is the first agent that…
Dean W. Ball Recommends 3 Sept Astra Astra is a remarkable piece of technology. Earlier agents often tried to dampen my ambitions—they’d push me to do “pilots” or “proofs of concept.” Then agents started meeting my ambitions. Astra is the first agent that…
Bryan Caplan Newsletter 4 Aug The Ambition Project
Paul Graham Korrent 3 Sept The founders who look unambitious are not: they have been trained by obedient upbringings to hide their ambition rather than lacking it. it's not that they lack ambition, it's more like they've been trained not to show it. Because when you're young you're often in situations where you're supposed to be obedient. You're not supposed to like go off and do…
Paul Graham Korrent 3 Sept Ambition in founders is mostly inborn, which is why stories of a founder acquiring it during a batch are rare. Those stories are rare because most of this quality is inborn.
Ursula von der Leyen x.com 7 Sept …course, more opportunities for the people of Greenland. We’re backing these ambitions with a €200 million Partnership Package…
Ursula von der Leyen x.com 27 Aug À la rentrée du @medef, je réaffirme notre ambition : Faire de l’Europe un continent qui produit, investit et protège. Augmenter notre capacité industrielle est au cœur de notre action ↓
David Heinemeier Hansson Korrent 26 Aug Entrepreneurs benefit from setting ambitious goals, even though most people do not need grand ambitions at all. …the other book that there are a lot of people who don't actually need those ambitions. And I also-- That's also true. We don't want 8 billion Elons running around the world. Would be rather crazy, I think. But I've…
Paul Graham Korrent 3 Sept A founder needs ambition rather than a sense of duty, because a startup is grueling enough that dutifulness will not carry anyone through it. we knew that it was grueling. And you need you need something to drive you through all those obstacles and honestly being dutiful is not enough.
Lenny Rachitsky Newsletter 30 Aug AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work)
Ursula von der Leyen x.com 27 Aug …et de notre industrie. Les écouter, c’est comprendre leurs réalités, leurs ambitions et leurs besoins. Et c’est en travaillant ensemble, entreprises et pouvoirs publics, que nous ferons de l’Europe un leader…
Mark Pincus Korrent 14 Jun Ambition should be measured in the eyes of your customer rather than your peers, which means being willing to take the best ideas wherever you find them. if you're truly ambitious, burn your resume. If you and if you define your ambition in the eyes of your consumer, not your peers, you're not trying to win awards and respect from your peers.
Richard Stallman Mastodon 5 Sept …https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jul-oct.html#1_October_2025_(UN_sanctions_against_Iran_reactivated) It seems…
Emmanuel Macron x.com 6 Sept …dont notre continent est capable lorsqu’il innove, investit et assume son ambition : bâtir une Europe puissance, indépendante jusque dans l’espace. Félicitations…
Andy Hertzfeld Uses 9 Mar 2012 Calibre I use Calibre to manage my ebooks, and harbor an ambition to rewrite its web UI.
Mark Pincus Korrent 14 Jun The greatest thing a product maker can build is an internet treasure — a service people cannot remember life before or imagine life without. …life without. And I believe as product makers that that's the greatest ambition and the greatest thing that we can offer the…
Andy Burnham x.com 26 Aug When I talk to young people about work, the same thing keeps coming up. Not a lack of ambition - a lack of a way in. One million young people in this country are not in education, work or training. That's around one in…
Brad Feld Loved 10 Jan 2025 Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Shaped the Internet Age and Dot-Com Boom — Dan Caruso See an excerpt explaining why I loved reading this book.
Andrew Batson Liked 16 Dec 2025 The Secret of Our Success — Joseph Henrich Not every plank in his argument is convincing, and the research has evolved since the book first came out a decade ago, but the ambition is impressive and the framework holds up.
Paul Millerd Recommends Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition — Paul Millerd A personal exploration of how to reclaim that fire inside of you and steer it toward your 'good work' while still being true to yourself.
Cal Newport Read 3 Dec 2021 Steven Spielberg: A Biography — Joseph McBride …His story provides a master class in the potential of mixing relentless ambition, talent, and perfect…
Paul Millerd Recommends Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World — Anne-Laure Le Cunff A more how-to pragmatic version of carving your own path. Includes some personal story of reinvention but more on experimentation that challenges our default scripts of success and ambition.
Tuomas Artman Korrent 28 Feb 2024 To compete with limited resources, scope down who you are building for as much as possible and solve the problems of specific people. To be able to do this with limited resources, you must scope down your audience (and thus your ambitions) as much as possible to make competing easier, and aim to solve the problems of specific people.
Jonathan Haidt Recommends 27 Jul 2010 Ambition — Gilbert Brim Let's say that if the Buddha had been born in the Midwest of the US he would have written Brim's book. Brim has a Midwesterner's work ethic, and Americans moralise work quite a lot...so Brim says don't drop out of the…