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Buster Benson
Personal blog · busterbenson.com/blogphilosophywriting
Buster Benson writes Buster’s Notes, a personal blog at busterbenson.com about philosophy and writing. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Cognitive Biases”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal site of Buster Benson, valued for transparent project updates, a digestible cognitive biases list, a life-in-weeks visualisation, and rules to live by. Commenters also praise its plain design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Notes
Most-linked posts?
- Cognitive Biases3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-02
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-01-10
- /life-in-weeks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-24
- Buster Benson: An entire life on a single webpage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-27
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-26
What Hacker News says?
I believe buster benson did it first https://busterbenson.com/life-in-weeks
Comment linking /life-in-weeks
on “My Life in Weeks”Submitted How to Write a Book Slowly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks. Well, different sources. As I said, I'm the intuitive type. But I can try to expand on those three. On mimetic desire: 1. Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One. He has an example of a company that buys billboards. Not actually to advertise to customers. But to advertise to their competitors. 2. Girard, who inspired Thiel. For instance, in "The One by Whom Scandal Comes", he writes: "In observing people around us w…
Comment linking /piles/cognitive-biases/
on “Ask HN: I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?”Submitted Buster Benson: An entire life on a single webpage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf anyone wants to read more of Buster's incredibly transparent updates, check out https://busterbenson.com/ and https://buster.substack.com/about . I'm a very small-time supporter/patron and enjoy Buster's approach to everything he does.
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on “I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business”Submitted Cognitive Biases as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA more digestible format for this: https://busterbenson.com/piles/cognitive-biases/
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on “List of Cognitive Biases”Submitted The Death Bed Game as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBuster Benson made something similar but much more interactive http://busterbenson.com
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on “Your Life”The article links to https://busterbenson.com/life-in-weeks , I guess this is where OP got his inspiration. Damn, "I got married" and one mouse scroll later, "Officially divorced". And it wasn't even to the same woman, he got married and divorced twice within 1 desktop browser viewport's worth of weeks.
Comment linking /life-in-weeks
on “Show HN: Weeks of Your Life”the guy that made it: http://busterbenson.com/ Bottom of the page, 'rules to live by', good stuff!
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on “750 Words”https://www.kalzumeus.com/ https://notes.andymatuschak.org https://busterbenson.com/ a blog should not be over designed.
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on “What are the most visually appealing blogs you've seen?”No need to link out to personal site (no way to remove link from original topic). I've just copied and pasted the blurb below: With summer officially here and July around the corner, we’re at the half way point of 2014. A great time to reflect and determine if on track. Coincidentally, my friend Max shared a thoughtful and entertaining blog post around reflection. Link 1 - http://www.geekwire.com/2012/day-rest-life/…
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on “Reflecting on halfway mark of 2014? Read these 2 links”
