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Chad Dickerson
Personal blog · blog.chaddickerson.comcareerstartups
Chad Dickerson's personal blog at blog.chaddickerson.com covers career and startups. Since 2011, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “What I’ve learned about life from six months learning piano (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chad Dickerson's blog for his RailsConf keynote on engineering for happiness and for his inside sales advice on selling by demonstrating value. A nonviolent communication post is also cited.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What I’ve learned about life from six months learning piano (2019)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-30
What Hacker News says?
Indeed. Denial of responsibility is a feature of violent communication. https://blog.chaddickerson.com/2018/10/29/nonviolent-communi...
Comment linking /2018/10/29/nonviolent-communication-and-the-concept-of-denial-of-responsibility/
on “Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50k users”Submitted Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email as a story · 269 points
HN discussionCongrats to Chad and to Etsy. He's created what appears to be one hell of a great engineering culture that has helped to nurture a great community culture. He gave a keynote at RailsConf this year about engineering for happiness, which is worth the watch if you haven't seen it: http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2011/05/20/railsconf/
Comment linking /2011/05/20/railsconf/
on “Our Next Chapter at Etsy: A Letter to the Community”Submitted Why liberal arts education matters as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnyone who does anything like what this post recommends should, and often will, get told to f' off. For any HN readers: ignore this post and instead, go read about how to sell by demonstrating value. You don't need to - shouldn't - be annoying, let alone feel dirty, to thrive as a salesperson. Start with https://blog.chaddickerson.com/2013/02/21/inside-sales-advic... .
Comment linking /2013/02/21/inside-sales-advice/
on “Breakup Email: The Hail Mary in Your Sales Outreach”Submitted Words of advice to inside sales people prospecting busy CEOs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I’ve learned about life from six months learning piano (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best books for new, first-time managers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Etsy CEO describes the origin of Yahoo Hack Day as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I’ve learned about life from six months learning piano as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I’ve learned about life from six months learning piano as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Readiness is All. as a story · 1 points
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