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A Learning a Day
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A Learning a Day is a personal blog at alearningaday.blog about philosophy and ai. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A personal blog of short daily learning notes (TILs) by a product manager, covering non-tech topics such as wealth and contentment, Buddhist and Christian stories, and corporate ethics. Commenters quote its passages.
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?
- /2019/06/04/joseph-heller-and-enough/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-10
What Hacker News says?
> Cook, clearly trying to remain calm, shot back: “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI [return on investment]. When I think about doing the right thing, I don’t think about an ROI.” > Cook then offered his own bottom line to Danhof, or any other critic, one which perfectly sums up his belief that social and political and moral leadership are not antithetical to…
Comment linking /2016/03/12/tim-cook-on-roi/
on “Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ”Submitted All it takes is for one to work out as a story · 813 points
HN discussionIn case folks are interested in other "non-tech" TILs, I occasionally visit this blog to see what's been added recently - https://alearningaday.blog/ - by a Product Manager who currently works at LinkedIn.
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on “I've been writing TILs for 5 years”Submitted Floss Before Brushing as a story · 52 points
HN discussion> The reason for climbing corporate ladders is to enrich your own life and give you more wealth, which can make your life far more comfortable and gain you respect and recognition amongst peers... But that's the thing- I don't actually need any of those things. My upper-middle class life is already comfortable. My peers already respect me. Sure, there could always be more money and respect, but that would always be…
Comment linking /2019/06/04/joseph-heller-and-enough/
on “Living Like Nothing Matters”Submitted Reduce, Reuse, Don't Recycle as a story · 25 points
HN discussionhttps://alearningaday.blog/2019/06/04/joseph-heller-and-enou... The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut informed his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responded – “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . enough.”
Comment linking /2019/06/04/joseph-heller-and-enough/
on “Growth is a mind cancer”Submitted Default Alive as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prizes_for_evidence_of... having cynically posted this link, i'd like to post another in the opposite direction from the tibetan buddhist tradition https://alearningaday.blog/2020/01/23/milarepa-and-the-demon... and one from the theravada buddhist tradition https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.10.piy... Demons are also ultimately suffering sentient beings, who t…
Comment linking /2020/01/23/milarepa-and-the-demons/
on “What Demonic Possession Is Like from a Vatican-Trained Exorcist”Submitted Took 12 Years as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hermit Mode as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Warning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Informal Org Chart as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AGI Is Here as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Built for Discomfort as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Internal Weather as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beware Global Scoreboards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drivers of success – the gap between actual drivers and what we read about as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Artemis II Fault Tolerance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heinz Duct Tape as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doomporn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fart Walks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding email scams – 3 tell-tale scams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Horizons of Clarity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No exemption from one star reviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Closing out a long and impactful run as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning – From the Many to the Few as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spiky or Broad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Pave the Cow Path as a story · 1 points
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