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Chris Behan
Personal blog · chrisbehan.ca/posts · on HN as behanprogrammingphilosophyai
Chris Behan's personal blog at chrisbehan.ca covers programming, philosophy and ai. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Summary of Atomic Habits”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this site's Atomic Habits summary as a condensed alternative to James Clear's book. Commenters suggest it covers the same material in far fewer pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website of chris behan
Most-linked posts?
- Summary of Atomic Habits6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-01-02
- Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-13
What Hacker News says?
> A requirement for changing habits is changing the physical world. James Clear talks about this in Atomic Habits [0][1], explaining that to break a bad habit, you must invert the first law of good habits ("Make it Obvious") so that the bad habit is "invisible". To do this, as you say, you must change your environment: "Reduce exposure. Remove the cues of your bad habits from your environment." [0] This Atomic Habit…
Comment linking /posts/atomic-habits
on “We need to reclaim our attention”Submitted Summary of Atomic Habits as a story · 446 points
HN discussioncomplete summary here - great stuff: https://www.chrisbehan.ca/posts/atomic-habits
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on “Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?”Submitted Write Like You Code as a story · 151 points
HN discussionI recently read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear and felt exactly this. The book could have easily been one quarter the length and covered all the same material. The contents of the book is quite good albeit not revolutionary. But it should have been around 60 pages not 270. I actually found a fantastic short form version at https://www.chrisbehan.ca/posts/atomic-habits which is just as good as the book at expl…
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on “Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020)”Submitted Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering as a story · 133 points
HN discussion"Could have been condensed into a blog post" Here you go: https://www.chrisbehan.ca/posts/atomic-habits Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774859
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on “Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones”Submitted Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering as a story · 5 points
HN discussionyou'll be fine with this summary -> https://www.chrisbehan.ca/posts/atomic-habits
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on “Ask HN: What Books Do You Recommend Reading for 2022?”Submitted Speculaville as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's interesting you say that, I actually recently wrote a blog post title "Don't help your kids with their homework" https://www.chrisbehan.ca/posts/dont-help-your-kids-with-the... although for very different reason than you have highlighted here. Thanks for sharing your perspective (:
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on “Ask HN: What's the most rewarding investment you've made in your career?”Submitted How Not to Change Someone's Mind as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are two good summaries of Atomic Habits that I know of: - https://srinathramakrishnan.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/brie... - https://www.chrisbehan.ca/posts/atomic-habits Each are about 16 pages long. I've been reading 3 pages a day of this as a good reminder.
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on “Ask HN: How did your 2022 resolutions turn out?”Submitted Building with Broken APIs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Understand Big O as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with Software Methodologies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resonance of Thought as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Money without value and value without money as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knowledge as an API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can Machines Think? as a story · 1 points
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