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Alexandr Wang

Personal blog · alexw.substack.comstartupsbusiness

Alexandr Wang writes Rational in the Fullness of Time, a personal blog at alexw.substack.com about startups and business. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “The AI War and How to Win It”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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16mentions?
12HN people?
2020–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2022

Things I've learned building a company.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The AI War and How to Win It
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-11-27
  2. Hire people who give a shit
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-26
  3. Optimism Shapes Reality
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-31
  4. Betting on Unknown Unknowns
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Hire people who give a shit as a story · 236 points

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  2. Submitted Hire People Who Care (2020) as a story · 37 points

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  3. Submitted Information Compression as a story · 5 points

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  4. Submitted Hire people who give a shit as a story · 5 points

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  5. Submitted Hire people who give a s__t (2020) as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted Betting on Unknown Unknowns as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted Betting on Unknown Unknowns as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted What I Learned in 2023 as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted The AI War and How to Win It as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Optimism Shapes Reality as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Optimism Shapes Reality as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted The AI War and How to Win It as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted The AI War and How to Win It as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted The AI War and How to Win It as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Optimism Shapes Reality as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Information Compression – Why the wrong thing happens as a story · 1 points

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