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Chris Barber
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Chris Barber's personal blog at chrisbarber.co covers startups, ai and career. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by one HN commenter as a further take on reorienting intentions in how one communicates, alongside nonviolent communication. The comment does not judge the post's quality.
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.
Chris Barber is an entrepreneur and researcher. Co-founded Prismaticco, created the Breakout List and Pavlov's List, and writes about startups, emotions & intuition, and AI.
What Hacker News says?
It's not really about the words, but about the intentions. If you speak the words without the intentions, then you get the orwellian mismatch you describe. So it's not really about "rephrasing" but more about "reorientation". The suggested phrasings are just a pointer to something deeper. There are many ways of approaching this idea (nonviolent communication is one). This blog post is another for those interested: h…
Comment linking /resonance/
on “What shall I teach my son?”Submitted A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places as a story · 152 points
HN discussionMy current expectation is that the Cowork/Codex set of "professional agents" for non-technical users will be one of the most important and fastest growing product categories of all time, so far. i.e. agents for knowledge workers who are not software engineers A few thoughts and questions: 1. I expect that this set of products will be extremely disruptive to many software businesses. It's like when a new VP joins a c…
Comment linking /professional-agents/
on “Codex for Almost Everything”Submitted I asked AI researchers and economists about SWE career strategies given AI as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIn general, starting with the products you love to use, or looking at where your favorite people you've ever worked with currently work, is probably the best move. In case helpful, I collected some startups I find interesting, see the startup lists section: https://chrisbarber.co/start-here/ . Though I think the ideal would be: * What are the products you find most enjoyable to use? * Of those, which ones do you hav…
Comment linking /start-here/
on “Ask HN: Where to find cool companies to work for?”Submitted I asked AI researchers and economists about SWE career strategies given AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make LLMs supportive, not sycophantic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The friend iteration method for pitch decks and YC apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chris Barber's AI Prep Notes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The movie method for getting into Stanford as a story · 1 points
HN discussion