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Alex Hillman
Personal blog · dangerouslyawesome.combusinessculture
Alex Hillman's personal blog at dangerouslyawesome.com covers business and culture. Since 2008, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alex Hillman's essays on community management, especially the idea of a 'tummler' who encourages members to help themselves and others rather than solving their problems for them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
better coworking, better business, and better communities
What Hacker News says?
I recently went on our company retreat and spent 7 days in the Spanish countryside. The last 2 days of the trip, we were in Barcelona. While the entire trip was productive for important reasons (Wildbit is an entirely distributed and international team and spending social time with the team was extremely valuable and enjoyable), I found more inspiration and motivation from the couple of days in the city compared to…
Comment linking /2011/04/signal-seeking/
on “Working Best at Coffee Shops”Submitted (Re)defining Competition as a story · 37 points
HN discussionThere's a wide community of people feeling just like you, assembling in "Maker communities", as they call it. Good entry points are the IndieHackers podcast, and conferences like MicroConf (watch their conference talk recordings here, especially Patrick McKenzie's aka patio11 [0]) The basic idea is to create a sustainable job you love for yourself, the people that depend on you, and many others. The antithesis of "O…
Comment linking /10k-independents-project
on “Ask HN: Career and life advice for a 30yo”Submitted How I Learned to Make Money as a story · 26 points
HN discussionHere is one of the best things I've read regarding 'community managers', and the mindset that such a position should entail: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2014/04/community-management-t... The TL;DR: encourage participation even above solving other people's problems for them - lead them toward helping themselves and others.
Comment linking /2014/04/community-management-tummling-a-tale-of-two-mindsets/
on “Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix”Submitted Your Clever Business Model as a story · 23 points
HN discussionWow! Never expected we would end up on HN. Happy to answer any questions. Mark ps: Some press and a review. https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/04/29/wisper-internet-se... https://dangerouslyawesome.com/2016/05/what-its-like-to-have...
Comment linking /2016/05/what-its-like-to-have-an-internet-provider-that-actually-cares/
on “Philly Wisper”Submitted What if I don't want to "join the conversation?" as a story · 14 points
HN discussionIf you've not heard of the term 'tummler' this might be helpful: To build a strong community, stop “community managing”, be a Tummler instead. http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2014/04/community-management-t...
Comment linking /2014/04/community-management-tummling-a-tale-of-two-mindsets/
on “MySQL 5.7.6 is out”Submitted Software Bundles Don’t Have to be Evil (Just Profitable) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionyou've already identified a bunch of things in our plans for cleanup and tuning. As far as push goes, I talk about it here: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2010/02/mailroom-gmail-on-the-... but the gist is this: In order to accurately update badge icons over push, we’d need to store email addresses and passwords on a server somewhere, and that’s a security risk that we can’t figure out how to justify. I know I wouldn’…
Comment linking /2010/02/mailroom-gmail-on-the-iphone-for-busy-people-built-by-busy-people/
on “Mailplane preview integrates Rapportive”Submitted Please, stop reacting. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another Manifesto: The Cult of Done as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My 1am Conference Organizer Playbook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The XY Anti-Pattern (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The XY Antipattern as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Community Leadership Lessons from Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Take Interest, Don't Fake Interest as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to seize an opportunity, mobilize a community, and move mountains as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted To build a strong community, stop “community managing”, be a Tummler instead as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to Do When People in Your Area Don't Understand Coworking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Without Heroes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CTFD & JFDI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Funding in Philadelphia – The Empty Can Rattles the Loudest as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with the Noise as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing to Greatness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dad's reactions to his first 20 minutes with iPad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scratching our own itch, then iterating: The Story of iPhone App as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If FailCamp succeeds, is it still FailCamp? as a story · 1 points
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