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Brian Lui
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Brian Lui's personal blog at brianlui.dog covers philosophy and productivity. Since 2018, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Upside decay (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Essays by Brian Lui about habits, decision-making, learning, communities, and life.
Most-linked posts?
- Upside decay (2020)6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-10-08
- Beware of Tight Feedback Loops (2020)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-03-16
What Hacker News says?
This is an interesting question! The answer is to hold conclusions loosely and test; always test. One way to pick who to pay attention to is ‘believability’ — meaning that you listen to those with at least 3 successes, and a coherent explanation when probed. Pointing out survivorship bias is a common rejoinder to this view. But when you’re trying to put things to practice (not get at some universal truth like a rese…
Comment linking /2020/05/10/beware-of-tight-feedback-loops/
on “The Skill of Org Design”Submitted Beware of Tight Feedback Loops (2020) as a story · 90 points
HN discussionI used to love Julia, but it increasingly makes this Koan make more and more sense: > A martial arts student went to his teacher and said earnestly, “I am devoted to studying your martial system. How long will it take me to master it?” The teacher’s reply was casual, “Ten years.” Impatiently, the student answered,”But I want to master it faster than that. I will work very hard. I will practice everyday, ten or more…
Comment linking /2020/05/10/beware-of-tight-feedback-loops
on “Julia 1.7 Highlights”Submitted The Importance Trap as a story · 67 points
HN discussionNo, I have no citations for the claim that inflation is sometimes above 2% or for the claim that the inflation rate for government services (which includes the cost of buying local housing for government employees) is sometimes above 2%. If either of these were true, the tax collected on a given property would increase in nominal terms but decay toward 0 in real terms. Unrelatedly, Brisbane found that they could rai…
Comment linking /2018/08/01/housing-shortages/
on “Anti Homeless Spikes”Submitted Upside decay (2020) as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beware of Tight Feedback Loops as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beware of Tight Feedback Loops (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upside Decay as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beware of tight feedback loops (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upside Decay as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- ed · 2021-05-04
Submitted Upside Decay as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted Upside decay, or “why some people never get lucky” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upside decay – why some people never get lucky breaks and others do as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upside decay as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beware of Tight Feedback Loops as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Housing Shortages as a story · 1 points
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