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Aaron Z. Lewis

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Aaron Z. Lewis writes azl, a personal blog at aaronzlewis.com about culture and philosophy. Since 2014, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Metaphors We Believe By”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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19mentions?
14HN people?
2014–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Aaron Z. Lewis's blog for the essay "Metaphors we believe by", which one commenter names as a favourite. The comment is in a thread on coordination problems.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Metaphors We Believe By
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-26
  2. Inside the digital sensorium
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-07
  3. The garden of forking memes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-08
  4. You can handle the post-truth: A pocket guide to the surreal internet (2019)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. Related is one of my favorite essays by Aaron Z. Lewis: "Metaphors we believe by" https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/07/25/metaphors-we-believe...

    Comment linking /blog/2019/07/25/metaphors-we-believe-by/

    on “Coordination Problems: What It Takes to Change the World”
  2. Submitted Metaphors We Believe By as a story · 129 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Spreading of Threading (2019) as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Inside the digital sensorium as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Digital Sensorium (2021) as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Better understand the bias of your news diet as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted You can handle the post-truth: A pocket guide to the surreal internet (2019) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Time Well Spent – See prices in working hours instead of dollars as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Being your selves: identity R&D on the pseudonymous internet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Re: Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The garden of forking memes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Confirmation bias is a feature, not a bug as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Two Letters, Two Hours: Inside Yo's first hackathon as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Breakdown of Will (2018) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Metaphors We Believe By as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Confirmation Bias Is a Feature, Not a Bug (2018) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The digital sensorium: “interface design is organ design” as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The Garden of Forking Memes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted A pocket guide to the post-truth internet as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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