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Anne Helen Petersen
Personal blog · annehelen.substack.comculturecareer
Anne Helen Petersen writes Culture Study, a personal blog at annehelen.substack.com about culture and career. Since 2019, 55 different Hacker News readers have linked it 73 times, most often “Labor shortage or terrible jobs?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Think more about the culture that surrounds you. Click to read Culture Study, by Anne Helen Petersen, a Substack publication.
Most-linked posts?
- Labor shortage or terrible jobs?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-04-24
- The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-05
- The Expanding Job3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-19
- Live Action Role Playing at Your Job2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-05
- The Social Media Sea Change2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-28
- The Friendship Dip2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-07
- “Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-13
- The Myth of the Productive Commute2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-20
- How to Build a Better Boss2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-15
- Archiving Your Teen Self2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-09
What Hacker News says?
“If a business can’t pay a living wage, should it be a business?” - https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-capitalism-is-broken-ec...
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on “U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees”Submitted Labor shortage or terrible jobs? as a story · 553 points
HN discussionThere is another dynamic at play, not mentioned in the article: the smaller cities are actively trying to become better places to live. Here's a nice writeup: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/this-land-is-your-land Quoting from that blog post: "“Cool,” which is to say, a certain type of bourgeois, with a certain aesthetic that unites it with larger cities while still maintaining a feeling of quaintness. In Tulsa, fo…
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on “Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking Their Jobs with Them”Submitted Is everything an MLM as a story · 352 points
HN discussionThere is another dynamic here: Small cities are trying harder to attract workers. Here is a nice writeup illustrating this: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/this-land-is-your-land
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on “Why Workers Without College Degrees Are Fleeing Big Cities”Submitted The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021) as a story · 323 points
HN discussion"LARPing your job" on Slack seems to be a common issue with remote work. https://annehelen.substack.com/p/larping-your-job https://www.theawl.com/2015/04/are-you-just-larping-your-job...
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on “The office is a theatre for work (2019)”Submitted Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? as a story · 289 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revenge Bedtime Procrastination as a story · 279 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Everything an MLM? (2019) as a story · 102 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Happened to People Magazine? as a story · 86 points
HN discussion- zt · 2020-11-13
Submitted “Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.” as a story · 50 points
HN discussion Submitted A theory of the modern exclamation point! as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who’s Afraid of the Four Day Work Week? as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of Houseplants as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dark Heart of Individualism as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Librarians Are Not Okay as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 'Capitalism Is Broken' Economy as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Social Media Sea Change as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ideological Battlefield of the “Mamasphere” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Demoralization Does to Teachers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Master's Trap as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 'Capitalism Is Broken' Economy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Social Media Sea Change as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Untold Story of the C-Section as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Welcome to Bama Confidential as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Myths of Grit and Passion as a story · 2 points
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