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Chase Jarvis
Personal blog · chasejarvis.com/blogculturecareer
Chase Jarvis's personal blog at chasejarvis.com covers culture and career. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Chase Jarvis – Instagram: The story I was too ashamed to tell”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Chase Jarvis's blog as a reference for photography topics, such as a series of look-alike portraits and iPhone photography. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
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.
Never Play It Safe is a practical guide to reclaiming your creativity and personal power in your daily life. Written by bestselling author, award-winning photographer, and founder of CreativeLive, Chase Jarvis.
Most-linked posts?
- Chase Jarvis – Instagram: The story I was too ashamed to tell3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-11
What Hacker News says?
Photographer Francois Brunelle has a photo series on people who look like they could be twins/related but aren't. Genetics is an odd thing. https://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/me-myself-and-i-francois-br...
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on “This person does not exist”Submitted Chase Jarvis – Instagram: The story I was too ashamed to tell as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHeh, my experience with this guy as a consumer has been when he put out a camera app and started a community site, and after making a good buck, abandoned it all, with no updates, no handover of the app, etc. http://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/the-best-camera-iphone-app-b...
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on “Why Do Famous People Get Paid $250k to Give a Speech?”Submitted Best Camera – Losing to Instagram, Developer Issues, Etc. as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Nobody is doing serious photography with an iPhone. Bullshit. A quick Googling reveals plenty of professional photographers using iPhones in their work. For example: http://www.chasejarvis.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10...
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on “IPhone 5 will reportedly sport 8 megapixel camera from Sony”Submitted My Biggest Failure: The Long Overdue Story I Was Too Ashamed to Tell as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSee also Jamie Livingston: > Jamie Livingston (October 25, 1956 – October 25, 1997) was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer. Between March 31, 1979, and October 25, 1997, the day of his death, he took a single picture nearly every day with a Polaroid SX-70 camera.[1][2] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Livingston > NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6…
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on “Photographer Captured One Image of Cambridge Every Day for 13 Years”