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30sleeps.com
Personal blog · 30sleeps.com/blogproductivityculture
30sleeps.com is a personal blog at 30sleeps.com about productivity and culture. Since 2007, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Playing the numbers game.”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on setting consulting and hourly rates, and for an archive that one commenter recommends as a guide to overcoming social anxiety.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2007/09/27/set-your-hourly-rate/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-05-06
- Playing the numbers game.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-19
What Hacker News says?
Brad Bollenbach once wrote: "Complaining and inactionable criticism is the highest form of mental masturbation." http://30sleeps.com/blog/?s=criticism&x=0&y=0&pa... Does anyone other than pg even attempt to write essays?
Comment linking /blog/?s=criticism&
on “Coding Horror: Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism”Submitted Want to up your consulting rate? Try overwhelming force. as a story · 82 points
HN discussionI think this is linked to the wrong blog post. http://30sleeps.com/blog/2007/09/27/set-your-hourly-rate/ goes better with the title. As someone who was just asked to bid on a fixed price contract, I agree with his comments. It is really unnerving to estimate exactly how much time it will take, especially if it is something you have never done before. Tripling your estimate is a great strategy, but you also don't wan…
Comment linking /blog/2007/09/27/set-your-hourly-rate/
on “Want to up your consulting rate? Try overwhelming force.”Submitted Nobody cares - a fundamental principle for startup socialites as a story · 35 points
HN discussionHe really advocates project/value based fees instead of time based fees. This guy is not a software consultant. So beware, beware, beware this advice, because that little detail matters a lot . It's easy to charge project based fees when you (a) are an expert negotiator and speaker and (b) your project is not built of either hardware or software. If the deliverable is a paper report, a Powerpoint presentation, or a…
Comment linking /blog/2007/09/27/set-your-hourly-rate/
on “Ask YC: What are the going rates for consulting gigs?”Submitted On Becoming an Expert as a story · 35 points
HN discussion"How to Set Your Hourly Consulting Rate": http://30sleeps.com/blog/2007/09/27/set-your-hourly-rate/ and another one from Michael Hartl, "How I can charge so much": http://eikonoklastes.org/articles/2007/09/26/how-i-can-charg...
Comment linking /blog/2007/09/27/set-your-hourly-rate/
on “Ask YC: What are the going rates for consulting gigs?”Submitted Achieving the Impossible: on genius, chess and more as a story · 34 points
HN discussionThis is a problem that I had down to the word ( except being able to give presentations, you got me on that ), and fixed. Here is my short guide. 1: Read everything written here - http://30sleeps.com/blog/ , particularly the old stuff is relevant. 2: Find 2-3 groups of people who you know none of. Many people do this at university. This is a clean slate. Worst case, you never talk to these people again. 3: ( This pl…
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on “Social anxiety is crippling my life, what can I do to stop it?”Submitted Why Is Simple So Hard? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Be Original as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Skydiving: The Art of Talking to Strangers as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Achieving Personal Goals (The Crazy Story of How We Built PlentyOfTweeps.com) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Read a Book as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Read a Novel as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get a Life as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Morten Lund on Entrepreneurship as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Bugs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Busy: Makes the boss happy. Productive: Makes the client happy. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perfectionism vs. Value as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Radical Honesty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Meet Women Without Really Trying as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Quit Drinking Alcohol as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overcoming Information Addiction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing the numbers game. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Should Study Philosophy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interest vs. Commitment as a story · 1 points
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