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Brian Doll
Personal blog · emphaticsolutions.comprogrammingbusinesscareer
Brian Doll writes Ephemeral Musings, a personal blog at emphaticsolutions.com about programming, business and career. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Object-oriented CSS Heuristics for Programmers”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Brian Doll's blog as further reading on growth marketing for technical audiences. One commenter cites his 2012 'marketing for geeks' post as a suggested read alongside a general article on growth hacking.
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?
- Object-oriented CSS Heuristics for Programmers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-21
What Hacker News says?
Related introspection: Engineers, built businesses, not apps: http://emphaticsolutions.com/2010/12/10/build-businesses-not...
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on “Build a Business, not an App”Submitted Engineers: Build businesses not apps as a story · 118 points
HN discussionHeh... interesting post with the opposite perspective as my post from a week ago or so. ( http://emphaticsolutions.com/2010/12/10/build-businesses-not... ) What we can agree on, obviously, is to encourage folks to get off their ass and ship something. What is best to focus on is up for debate.
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on “Build apps not businesses.”Submitted GitHub, an egalitarian love story as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAbsolutely. I wrote about this last year (Engineers- build businesses not apps: http://emphaticsolutions.com/2010/12/10/build-businesses-not... ) and yet I don't think we can say this enough. This is one of the primary values found in the essence of the lean startup movement. Customer development can not be overlooked. Business models can not be overlooked. Building apps is easy, building sustainable businesses is h…
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on “App vs. Business”Submitted Object-oriented CSS Heuristics for Programmers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA good overview of "growth hacking" and lots of links, but you won't find much of the nuts and bolts in the article. Worth a read if you're new to the idea. Suggested further reading/watching: Brian Doll (Github -- and you thought drink ups were just for fun?): http://emphaticsolutions.com/2012/06/22/marketing-for-geeks.... Paul Willard (Atlassian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyZOGJHl_a0 There's lot more out th…
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on “Everything Is Marketing: How Growth Hackers Redefine The Game”Submitted What kind of maker are you? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHuge +1 for 'Good Calories, Bad Calories'. Read this and you'll change your bad eating habits immediately. Exercise is very important, but body composition changes come from nutrition. (After changing how I ate, I lost 70# in 6 months and have kept that same weight for 2 years, more info for the curious: http://emphaticsolutions.com/2009/01/12/clean-eating-how-I-m... )
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on “Weighing the Evidence on Exercise”Submitted Marketing for Geeks - Resources as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Object-oriented CSS Heuristics for Programmers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There Is Magic in Garbaggio as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There Is Magic in Garbaggio as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thanks, dad. Leadership and life lessons from a pre-internet entrepreneur as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted People, not process, is the soul of "agile" as a story · 1 points
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