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Ben Casnocha
Personal blog · ben.casnocha.comcareerbusiness
Ben Casnocha's personal blog at ben.casnocha.com covers career and business. Since 2007, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Six Habits of Highly Effective Mentees”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Ben Casnocha's blog for posts on writing and productivity, mastery, happiness, and stepping out of one's comfort zone, such as 'How to Draw an Owl' and 'The 30 Steps to Mastery'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about entrepreneurship, books, current affairs, and intellectual life.
Most-linked posts?
- Six Habits of Highly Effective Mentees2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-25
- Why to Move to a New Place: It Slows Down Time2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-22
- The 30 Steps to Mastery2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-30
What Hacker News says?
As an attorney, I’m always concerned that my writing will not be my best work and people will think that I suck. Or that something I write will come back and bite me in the ass when I run for office or get vetted for some high powered job. However, fear or perfectionism can be paralyzing. Even as an attorney, you have to produce a lot of crap to produce good stuff. Judge Posner comes to mind. He blogs, writes about…
Comment linking /2010/05/career-lessons-from-elena-kagan-vs-richard-posner.html
on “How do I write so much, you ask? Well, glad you asked”Submitted How to Draw An Owl as a story · 106 points
HN discussionBen even posted the comment as a separate blog post. (Also, the Disqus anchor link often doesn't work.) The 30 Steps to Mastery http://ben.casnocha.com/2010/11/the-30-steps-to-mastery.html
Comment linking /2010/11/the-30-steps-to-mastery.html
on “How to Draw An Owl”Submitted Start-Up Chile: $40k to Live There and Start a Company as a story · 81 points
HN discussionagreed, here's a direct link http://ben.casnocha.com/2010/11/how-to-draw-an-owl.html#comm...
Comment linking /2010/11/how-to-draw-an-owl.html
on “How to Draw An Owl”Submitted Nassim Taleb's Top 10 Life Tips as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI try to seek out new experiences, social or otherwise. This past year I started keeping a short diary of semi-significant events - a concert I went to, a date I had, a problem I solved at work. My goal with the diary was to make time slow down (without moving) and it has definitely worked. It's really fun to read back through it. The idea of slowing time down comes from here: http://ben.casnocha.com/2011/05/why-to-…
Comment linking /2011/05/why-to-move-to-a-new-place-it-slows-down-time.html
on “On being happy”Submitted Scalable vs. Non-Scalable Careers as a story · 67 points
HN discussionThis reminded me of the post from Ben Casnocha on living out the "do one thing that scares you" advice: http://ben.casnocha.com/2010/07/living-out-the-do-one-thing-...
Comment linking /2010/07/living-out-the-do-one-thing-that-scares-you-advice.html
on “Ask HN: When did you last put yourself out of your comfort zone?”Submitted Family or Career - Zero Sum Game? as a story · 49 points
HN discussionWhat was the most frequent mistake the company made? http://ben.casnocha.com/2007/08/what-was-your-m.html
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on “I'm meeting Jeff Bezos tonight-- what should I ask him?”Submitted Farmers Didn't Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming. as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can You Be Shy and Still Succeed in Business? as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Risk of Working Hard as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Way to Check Someone's References as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contrasts in How Google Suggests Searches as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Expose Yourself to Randomness as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Things to Unlearn from School as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Love and Sex Naturally Go Together? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Would You Trust Less a Business Partner Who Cheats on His/Her Spouse? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why to Move to a New Place: It Slows Down Time as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes Something Interesting? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The centenarian strategy: life/career planning when you will live to 100 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 30 Steps to Mastery as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern Education vs. Placebo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do men have to wear a jacket in Restaurants in your city? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hard-to-define jobs are more secure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six Habits of Highly Effective Mentees as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Procrastination Risk in the Maker's Schedule as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wisdom from a former squash champion and partner of George Soros as a story · 1 points
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