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Better than Random
Personal blog · betterthanrandom.substack.comdatacareerai
Better than Random is a personal blog at betterthanrandom.substack.com about data, career and ai. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “A Tsunami of Cogs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one bare "See:" link, to a post titled "shipping the org chart", offered in a thread about resizing windows on macOS Tahoe. The comment gives no view of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Written by a seasoned data leader, focused on data, analytics, AI/ML and engineering, I share practical strategies and lessons from the trenches to help you build systems and teams that outperform chance.
Most-linked posts?
- A Tsunami of Cogs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-24
What Hacker News says?
See: [shipping the org chart]( https://betterthanrandom.substack.com/p/shipping-the-org-cha... )
Comment linking /p/shipping-the-org-chart
on “The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe”Submitted If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued as a story · 850 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discussing politics at work: Don't, just don't as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering managers are former individual contributors as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tsunami of Cogs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spreadsheets Die Hard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Charitymaxxing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Next Horses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing Strong Personalities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should you take the startup offer? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wind of Change as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Self-Serve Delusion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let them eat Nvidia chips as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Either micromanage your people or lean on them as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do you need a lead scoring model? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tsunami of Cogs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is the AI industry a bubble? Of course it is, but what kind? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There are no strong opinions, weakly held as a story · 1 points
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