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Andrew Kortina
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Andrew Kortina's personal blog at kortina.nyc covers economics, culture and writing. Since 2018, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Market Failures in the Attention Economy”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Experiments and Essays by Andrew Kortina
Most-linked posts?
- Market Failures in the Attention Economy5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-03-15
- Kinky Labor Supply and the Attention Tax (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-27
- Labor Supply and the Attention Tax2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-19
What Hacker News says?
+1 to the idea of locally stored Markdown files as a database. Obsidian is a very neat tool but I'd generally preferred using VS Code. I've used roughly the same flow here: https://kortina.nyc/essays/suping-up-vs-code-as-a-markdown-n... The backlinks functionality is a little more hacked on than the built-in Obsidian tooling but I find most of the other editing tools and extensions to be superior. Having my knowledg…
Comment linking /essays/suping-up-vs-code-as-a-markdown-notebook/
on “Notion is having a service interruption”Submitted I, Backpack as a story · 100 points
HN discussionWell, his position makes perfect sense: he is a co-founder of Venmo, which was acquired in 2012 for 26 million dollars. http://kortina.nyc/work/
Comment linking /work/
on “Labor Supply and the Attention Tax”Submitted Origins of Venmo (2014) as a story · 52 points
HN discussionSubmitted Labor Supply and the Attention Tax as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kinky Labor Supply and the Attention Tax (2018) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kinky Labor Supply and the Attention Tax as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The winners and losers from accelerated virtualization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speech Is Free, Distribution Is Not // a Tax on Attention and Political Power as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Principals for radical tax reform and a universal dividend as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of the Capital AI and Market Failures in the Attention Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of the Capital AI and Market Failures in the Attention Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of the Capital AI and Market Failures in the Attention Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Market Failures in the Attention Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kinky Labor Supply and the Attention Tax as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Social Dilemma Dilemma as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of the Capital AI and Market Failures in the Attention Economy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of the Capital AI and Market Failures in the Attention Economy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Napkin Modeling the US Govt “P&L” // Income Tax and Redistribution Scenarios as a story · 1 points
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