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Chris Lakin
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Chris Lakin writes Locally Optimal, a personal blog at chrislakin.blog about career, health and productivity. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Social anxiety isn't about being liked”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Lakin's blog for a rewrite of 'The Courage to be Disliked' that reworks the book's writing style, offered as an alternative to the book itself.
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.
Removing bottlenecks for key people helping ASI go well.
Most-linked posts?
- Social anxiety isn't about being liked2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-26
What Hacker News says?
> I'm not a big fan of the writing style of the book OP here. I address that in How I'd rewrite The Courage to be Disliked: https://chrislakin.blog/courage
Comment linking /courage
on “Social anxiety isn't about being liked”Submitted Social anxiety isn't about being liked as a story · 283 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read as a story · 133 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted What went wrong when I matchmade my friends as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social anxiety isn't about being liked as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if muscle tension is sometimes signal jamming? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why We Create Our Suffering as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Flaky breakthroughs" pervade coaching – but no one tracks them as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do you need years more therapy, or could one conversation resolve the issue? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Began a pay-on-results coaching experiment, made $40,300 since July as a story · 1 points
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