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Benjamen Walker
Personal blog · theoryofeverythingpodcast.comculturewriting
Benjamen Walker's personal blog at theoryofeverythingpodcast.com covers culture and writing. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Benjamen Walker's podcast. HN commenters link its two 1984 episodes (the year and the book) and an episode on coffee companies, calling the 1984 episodes informative and outstanding.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personally connecting the dots. All of them.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-27
What Hacker News says?
Certainly the ones I appreciated the most were two related episodes from Benjamin Walker's Theory of everything [1], very informative, very personal: - 1984 The Book [2] - 1984 The Year [3] [1] https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/ [2] https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/2019/08/1984-the-book-... [3] https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/2019/08/1984-the-year-...
Comment linking /2019/08/1984-the-year-not-the-book-r/
on “Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?”Technically from 2019 but heard it this year, it's 1984 (the year not the book) [1] an outstanding episode from the excellent Theory of Everything podcast [2] by Benjamin Walker. As bonus you also have an episode about the book 1984 [3]. [1] https://beta.prx.org/stories/288310 [2] https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/ [3] https://beta.prx.org/stories/288314
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?”I think i am remebering this podcast https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/2019/12/wake-up-and-sm... which covered African Coffee Roasters https://twitter.com/acr_ke?lang=en and Coffee Collective https://coffeecollective.dk/ so maybe it was a Denmark company
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on “How Nespresso's coffee revolution got ground down”This article is a short overview and review of the podcast series mini-series "Not all propaganda is art" The podcast's self-description is: > “Not All Propaganda is Art” tells the story of three writers who got caught up in the Cultural Cold War between the years of 1956 and 1960: New Yorker writer and “little magazine” champion Dwight Macdonald, British theater critic and “Angry Young Man” Kenneth Tynan, and legen…
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on “When the CIA turned writers into operatives”Communities like this pop up regularly but are naturally unstable. They sometimes (often?) work great while their members are like-minded, young and healthy. Over the years the population inevitably drifts and the community either collapses or becomes more and more embedded in the surrounding society, which has more stable institutions to deal with people not thinking alike. Check out the Utopia series [0] from "The…
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on “Schoonschip – Unique residential area: floating, sustainable, circular”