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Alexandre Afonso
Personal blog · alexandreafonso.wordpress.comcareerculture
Alexandre Afonso's personal blog at alexandreafonso.wordpress.com covers career and culture. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for the essay "How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang" (2013), which compares academic careers and incentives to a drug gang. The comments only point to the post and its earlier submissions.
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.
Leiden University
Most-linked posts?
- How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-11-25
What Hacker News says?
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6825534 (100+ votes, ~2 years ago) with a different address: https://alexandreafonso.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/how-academi...
Comment linking /2013/11/21/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/
on “How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013)”Submitted How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang as a story · 101 points
HN discussionLinkjacked from http://alexandreafonso.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/how-academia...
Comment linking /2013/11/21/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/
on “How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang”Submitted How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang as a story · 4 points
HN discussion
