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Cap Watkins
Personal blog · capwatkins.comdesigncareer
Cap Watkins's personal blog at capwatkins.com covers design and career. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Rebalancing of Design Management”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on 'the sliding scale of giving a f***', a way to settle a disagreement between colleagues by rating how much each person cares and letting the higher number decide.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- The Rebalancing of Design Management2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-06
What Hacker News says?
This article made a huge impact on me: https://capwatkins.com/blog/the-sliding-scale-of-giving-a-fu... When I sense a situation like that incoming, I’ll rate how much I care on a scale of 1–10 and encourage the other party to do the same. The person with the higher number gets their way. There are basically three possible outcomes: 1. The decision succeeds. Hooray! 2. The decision fails. Learn what you can from the…
Comment linking /blog/the-sliding-scale-of-giving-a-fuck
on “Ask HN: When both colleagues think the other is wrong, how to proceed?”Submitted A fond farewell to San Francisco Startup Life as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Design Things Happen as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skip the Shortcuts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rebalancing of Design Management as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rebalancing of Design Management as a story · 1 points
HN discussion