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Billy Oppenheimer
Personal blog · billyoppenheimer.comaiwriting
Billy Oppenheimer's personal blog at billyoppenheimer.com covers ai and writing. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Notecard System”. 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
HN readers link this blog for its notecard system for writing deeply reported nonfiction, which one commenter says is similar to methods used by Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Notecard System2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-05
What Hacker News says?
This seems similar to the method used by Robert Greene (and Ryan Holiday who learned it from him, and many others.) I just started using it (as in: I bought notecards and a box to store them.) This would be a good overview of the method: https://billyoppenheimer.com/notecard-system/
Comment linking /notecard-system/
on “The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction”Submitted The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Notecard System as a story · 2 points
HN discussion