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Ben Landau-Taylor
Personal blog · benlandautaylor.comhistorypoliticseconomics
Ben Landau-Taylor's personal blog at benlandautaylor.com covers history, politics and economics. Since 2018, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Why is simple decoration so rare in recent work?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Investigating power, society, and industry. Click to read Ben Landau-Taylor, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Why is simple decoration so rare in recent work?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-10
- The Four-Year Locusts2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-28
- How to Learn History2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-04
- Looking Beyond the Veil2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-01
What Hacker News says?
> Why is a company wanting to be apolitical is controversial? It's wild. That was standard not long ago. Most companies, even in tech, were apolitical. Maybe there would be some watercooler chat near the election with that one coworker who was really into politics, but that was about it. People mostly didn't know or care what the politics of their coworkers were. If they did, it wasn't a big deal and would still be…
Comment linking /2018/09/22/the-four-year-locusts/
on “Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission”Submitted The DDoS attack of academic bullshit as a story · 97 points
HN discussionSeconded. I'm 64, and today I learnt I had no idea what historians do when I read https://www.benlandautaylor.com/p/how-to-learn-history I can't find an article from him where I can fault the logic or didn't learn something new. Perhaps some are a bit wordy, by my he does write readable words. Back to the topic on hand, I googled "How to learn history". Why? Because I now I have a fair idea of what the best introduc…
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on “The DDoS attack of academic bullshit”Submitted Why is simple decoration so rare in recent work? as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do victims of massacres go to their deaths? as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fourth Form of Government as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Learn History as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The military transformation of medieval Europe: Stirrups vs. social cohesion as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted If You Build It, They Will Come as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking Beyond the Veil as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking Beyond the Veil as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the Deal with the Industrial Revolution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Four-Year Locusts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parasite Load as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There is no steady state as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Archaeologist and the Oil Drop – Ben Landau-Taylor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computers Are Overrated as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The things around us have become plainer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Can't Have Nice Things as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Military Transformation of Medieval Europe: Stirrups vs. Social Cohesion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Four Instruments of Expansion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computers Are Over-Rated as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Four-Year Locusts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against AGI Timelines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to Do If Nuclear War Seems Imminent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Vocabulary of Power as a story · 1 points
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