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Andre Cooper
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Andre Cooper writes Good Reason, a personal blog at goodreason.substack.com about economics, politics and culture. Since 2022, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “On Corpspeak”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments mention this blog without judging its writing. The linked material covers workplace culture in tech and whether median real income, adjusted for inflation with CPI, shows the middle of the distribution.
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.
Trying to see the world more clearly.
Most-linked posts?
- On Corpspeak2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-23
- Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment Was a Colossal Mistake2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-06
What Hacker News says?
It sounds like you may be failing some sort of implicit cultural filters - you've been in the same small workplace for 8 years and apparently your circles don't include highly-paid IT/development people. "International-tier" tech is a fairly distinctive and exclusionary culture to anyone who is not fluent in either its own norms or those of a handful of adjacent academic fields, and the boundary may be policed based…
Comment linking /p/on-corpspeak
on “Ask HN: Should I checkmate my employer?”Submitted On Corpspeak as a story · 231 points
HN discussionThey go further. That's why I linked to median real income. It's exactly the stat that matters: looking at the actual person in the middle of the pack (not the mean, which is distorted by outliers) and controlling for inflation using the CPI, which uses a weighted average of hundreds of different cost categories to represent typical spending. I think housing makes up like 40% of it (don't quote me on that though) so…
Comment linking /p/maybe-treating-housing-as-an-investment
on “Der Spiegel Proclaims the End of the West”Submitted Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment Was a Colossal Mistake as a story · 143 points
HN discussionSubmitted Housing Can't Be Affordable and a High-Performing Investment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Truthiness of Hasan Minhaj as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenAI and Math People's Struggle to Account for Others as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy-to-Use Is Hard to Build as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted It'd Be Nice to Live in Less of a Gerontocracy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the cumulative constraints of bureaucratic systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Question Your Darlings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who's Right on Inflation? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion