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Alex Crompton
Personal blog · alexcrompton.com/blogstartupswriting
Alex Crompton's personal blog at alexcrompton.com covers startups and writing. Since 2019, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Hard is not defensible (2017)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alex Crompton's site for his language-learning method. One commenter builds daily flashcard decks of common French words and sentences by following it.
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.
Alex Crompton — writing, startups, music, chess, and learning.
Most-linked posts?
- Hard is not defensible (2017)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-09
- Why Tech Companies Are Bad2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-10
- How To Learn Chess As An Adult (or, how I went from 300 to 1500 ELO in 9 months)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-23
What Hacker News says?
> However, coming up with ideas is far, far easier than executing on them. There was an article [0] shared here last month that I found useful for weighing the relative importance of ideas vs execution. IMO, there are many many million-dollar-ideas (million with an m, not billion) out there, that are enough to make a bootstrap startup out of. Many people see these ideas, but don't develop them because the problems a…
Comment linking /blog/2017/05/26/hard-is-not-defensible
on “YC Startup School: Build Sprint and Equity-Free Grants”Submitted Hard is not defensible (2017) as a story · 79 points
HN discussionI never thought about ear-training! My listening comprehension for Piano has always been lacking. A deck of piano sounds that map to actual notes (or even chords) might do wonders for it... My current decks are as follows - I spend about an hour in total reviewing/learning them all, daily: - 5000 most common French words - 5000 most common French sentences (following the Alex Crompton method: https://www.alexcrompto…
Comment linking /blog/how-to-learn-a-language
on “Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?”Submitted Hard Is Not Defensible as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Patents for Startups (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is Chess? What to think and how long for as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much should you raise at seed? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why tech companies are bad (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Learn Chess As An Adult (or, how I went from 300 to 1500 ELO in 9 months) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Beat Silicon Valley Competitors (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Tech Companies Are Bad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Learn Chess as an Adult as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
