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Apoorva Govind

Personal blog · apoorvagovind.substack.comcareerculture

Apoorva Govind writes Valley Girl Newsletter, a personal blog at apoorvagovind.substack.com about career and culture. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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2020–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

Observations of a silicon valley engineer about working in tech, engineering, and anything else related to life in the valley.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-10-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. EvgeniyZh · 2020-10-17

    Submitted How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time as a story · 356 points

    HN discussion
  2. enigmatic02 · 2022-01-20

    Submitted How to waste your career one comfortable year at a time as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. monort · 2020-10-02

    Submitted How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. kakakiki · 2024-03-20

    Submitted How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. nickwritesit · 2023-06-25

    Submitted How to Waste Your Career, One Comfortable Year at a Time as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. thunderbong · 2024-03-18

    Submitted How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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