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Adam Townsend
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Adam Townsend's personal blog at adamtownsend.me covers business and career. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Gig Economy, Entrepreneur and Gov Licensing (2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link these posts as sources: one on licensing requirements for gig and blue-collar workers, and one on Amazon's taxes and New York City's power to act against it. The writing itself is not judged.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Investor. Extreme Salesman.
Most-linked posts?
- Gig Economy, Entrepreneur and Gov Licensing (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-29
What Hacker News says?
It is harder and harder to be a blue to gray collar worker in the USA than ever before. 66 jobs have bigger licensure requirements than EMT's. Cosmetologists spend ~400 days training, EMT's - 33. https://www.adamtownsend.me/regulating-licensing-gig-workers...
Comment linking /regulating-licensing-gig-workers/
on “Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record”Submitted Plastic words: the tyranny of a modular language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPart of their motivation to maximize costs is to minimize tax exposure. Since 2008 Walmart has paid $64B in corporate income tax, while Amazon has paid $1.4B. (Source: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-sec ) Amazon is taking NYC's lunch money - New York City has the power to stop Amazon and to restore middle-class equilibrium. (Source: http://www.adamtownsend.me/amazon-nyc/ ) Jean-Claude Junck…
Comment linking /amazon-nyc/
on “How to tame the tech titans”Submitted Hillary Clinton. Who will guard the guards? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zenefits Kane as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Saying We Need a Gold Standard, This Is Why as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Passing the Pen Test For Sales (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gig Economy, Entrepreneur and Gov Licensing (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sales Assembly Line: Breeding Competition as a story · 1 points
HN discussion