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Bryan Alexander
Personal blog · bryanalexander.org · on HN as doctornemootherculture
Bryan Alexander's personal blog at bryanalexander.org covers culture. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “A year without caffeine (part 2)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bryan Alexander's personal and tech posts, including a year-without-caffeine series, an introduction to the LBRY decentralized library, and a piece on the 'free market' phrase.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Futurist, educator, speaker, writer
Most-linked posts?
- A year without caffeine (part 2)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-06
- A year without caffeine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-04
- /2017/03/19/what-is-lbry-and-what-does-it-mean-for-education/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-22
What Hacker News says?
Hear hear! I've been arguing this for several years now, most recently: https://bryanalexander.org/2017/07/07/i-defy-the-world-and-g... . Facebook's algo is deeply messed up.
Comment linking /2017/07/07/i-defy-the-world-and-go-back-to-rss/
on “The Case for RSS”Submitted A year without caffeine (part 2) as a story · 231 points
HN discussionHe wrote a first part here - http://bryanalexander.org/2013/01/04/a-year-without-caffeine... (this was on HN earlier and sets the context for the caffeine free lifestyle).
Comment linking /2013/01/04/a-year-without-caffeine/
on “A year without caffeine (part 2)”Submitted A year without caffeine as a story · 76 points
HN discussionFair enough, I recognise that it's hard. This article does a good job of introducing LBRY, btw: https://bryanalexander.org/2017/03/19/what-is-lbry-and-what-... (h/t @doctornemo). I also saw it described as "A cross between Bitcoin and Napster", which was fairly illuminating. I'm sure you wouldn't consider it accurate, but as a starting point perhaps something like this would be useful to have? At the very least, #1…
Comment linking /2017/03/19/what-is-lbry-and-what-does-it-mean-for-education/
on “Lbry.io – decentralized digital library”Submitted A year without caffeine (2013) as a story · 73 points
HN discussionI poked around a bit and shared some notes here: https://bryanalexander.org/2017/03/19/what-is-lbry-and-what-... LBRY's Twitter team was also very responsive.
Comment linking /2017/03/19/what-is-lbry-and-what-does-it-mean-for-education/
on “Lbry.io – decentralized digital library”Submitted American views of higher ed decline, once again as a story · 41 points
HN discussionThis phrase has been around since at least 2010 and has been popularized over the years by many big names in tech and media circles ranging from Tim O'Reilly and Bruce Schneier to Jake Tapper among many many others. In most cases, that coverage was just highlighting discussions already happening across various social spaces. And the concept behind this sentiment can be traced to earlier TV advertising days. Not my p…
Comment linking /digital-literacy/you-are-the-product-one-interesting-source-for-the-meme/
on “Apple vs. the "Free Market"”Submitted What happened to millions of Creative Commons-licensed photos in Flickr? as a story · 21 points
HN discussionHere's part 2: http://bryanalexander.org/2013/01/06/a-year-without-caffeine...
Comment linking /2013/01/06/a-year-without-caffeine-part-2/
on “A year without caffeine”Submitted Two years without caffeine, a followup as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThere's also a two-year follow-up: < https://bryanalexander.org/personal/two-years-without-caffei... > (Posted to HN, but only two comments: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8791462 >.)
Comment linking /personal/two-years-without-caffeine/
on “A year without caffeine (2013)”Submitted The webinar must die: a friendly proposal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s the best venue for long-form discussion in 2017? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven years after giving up caffeine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four years in: under the hood of my consulting firm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When an ISP Fails: The Case of Consolidated Communications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another effect of rising income inequality: charitable giving has changed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A future of education business, three years in as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Has private higher education reached an inflection point? as a story · 1 points
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