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Chris Hynes
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Chris Hynes writes Tech Reflect, a personal blog at techreflect.org about career and culture. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked post on founder-led management, citing Steve Jobs's annual retreat for the 100 most important Apple people, not the highest-ranking ones. One commenter questions whether that style was actually good.
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.
Refecting on 20+ years working in the technology industry, offering advice, insight, and stories.
What Hacker News says?
> Steve Jobs used to run an annual retreat for what he considered the 100 most important people at Apple, and these were not the 100 people highest on the org chart. Can you imagine the force of will it would take to do this at the average company? [...] Steve presumably wouldn't have kept having these retreats if they didn't work. Probably, but before we assume that Steve's management style was unabashedly good at…
Comment linking /2019/05/horsey/
on “Founder Mode”Submitted Desktop Pictures taken by Steve Jobs (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mail's One and Only (Former) Easter Egg as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
