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Built to Run

Personal blog · kimmoir.blogprogrammingcareer

Built to Run is a personal blog at kimmoir.blog about programming and career. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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2017–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Kim Moir's blog, linked in an HN thread on reading for engineers moving into management. HN readers point to her post of favourite books for new managers, which is valued for its list and its reasoning.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Wrangling distributed systems with a side order of pancakes

What Hacker News says?

  1. kwooding · 2022-12-19Recommends
    Kim Moir has a great blog post on this: https://kimmoir.blog/2021/11/30/my-favourite-books-for-new-m... which includes many of the choices talked about here (and many others)

    Comment linking /2021/11/30/my-favourite-books-for-new-managers/

    on “Ask HN: Recommended reading for IC transitioning to Manager track”
  2. Submitted The Manager’s Path in review as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. kwooding · 2022-12-19Recommends
    Kim Moir has a great blog post on this: https://kimmoir.blog/2021/11/30/my-favourite-books-for-new-m... which includes many of the choices talked about below, and a great discussion of why

    Comment linking /2021/11/30/my-favourite-books-for-new-managers/

    on “Ask HN: Recommended reading for IC transitioning to Manager track”
  4. Submitted Management books in review as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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