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blog.capwatkins.com
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blog.capwatkins.com is a personal blog at blog.capwatkins.com about design, career and writing. Since 2012, 45 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-05-19
- Curiosity Required2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-28
- Tie Your Ego to the Product, Not the Process2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-05
- Management and Power2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-07
- Great Teams, Great Products2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-30
- The Boring Designer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-17
- The Dark Corners of Your UI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-29
- Building a Design-Driven Culture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-21
- Your org is a product2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-02
What Hacker News says?
I guess it really comes down to the trade-off between customization and familiarity. IME in any given company there's plenty of people going to bat for the former, and hardly anyone that cares about the latter. On the "sliding scale of giving a fuck" [0], there's usually plenty of graphics designers and managers whose job revolves around giving an '8' for customisation and branding, and most devs seem to consider us…
Comment linking /the-sliding-scale-of-giving-a-fuck
on “In web design, everything easy is hard again”- nj · 2013-01-07
Submitted Quitting LinkedIn as a story · 165 points
HN discussion My guess is that he means something more like what's discussed in this essay, "The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck": http://blog.capwatkins.com/the-sliding-scale-of-giving-a-fuc...
Comment linking /the-sliding-scale-of-giving-a-fuck
on “Q&A with Andrew Mason”Submitted Formspring - A Postmortem as a story · 94 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dark Corners of Your UI as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Real Problem with Mailbox as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recruiting - A Tutorial as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Design-Driven Culture as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lie I Tell New Hires as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should Engineers Design? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted IOS 7. Unpolished By Design. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tie Your Ego to the Product, Not the Process as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Management and Power as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Process Isn't Sacred as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Product Patience as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted User Experience Belongs to Everybody as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Last 10% as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be Kind as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Table Stakes Are Dangerous as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great Teams, Great Products as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your org is a product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Focus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Boring Designer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should Engineers Design? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free to be great as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recruiting Designers – By the Numbers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of Squarespace Logo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The UX of Interviewing as a story · 2 points
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