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Chris Mytton
Personal blog · chrismytton.comprogrammingwriting
Chris Mytton's personal blog at chrismytton.com covers programming and writing. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Why to Be Prolific”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Mytton's posts on reading habits and consumption, such as "Consume less, produce more", which one commenter keeps bookmarked as a reminder.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal website of Chris Mytton: programming, life, nature and, lately, maps and the landscape.
Most-linked posts?
- Why to Be Prolific2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-22
- Consume less, produce more2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-24
What Hacker News says?
Thanks. That’s great advice and I’ve also added it to my Bookmarks Toolbar as a reminder. I also bookmarked the Stoic advice in Book notes: A Guide to the Good Life ¹. Over the past few years, I’ve been practising similar techniques but I still need to be more disciplined. I was about to subscribe to Chris’ Atom feed – only to realise that would just add to the excessive consumption anxiety. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¹ https://www.…
Comment linking /a-guide-to-the-good-life/
on “The Reading Obsession”Submitted Be prolific as a story · 328 points
HN discussionI have an article called "Consume less, produce more" ( https://www.chrismytton.com/2020/09/24/consume-less-produce-... ) in my bookmarks toolbar that's always visible as a reminder of that.
Comment linking /2020/09/24/consume-less-produce-more/
on “The Reading Obsession”Submitted Consume less, produce more as a story · 57 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm starting a newsletter, and you should too as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why to Be Prolific as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be Prolific as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML Canvas Art in TypeScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby: The not so good parts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hiring an Electric Scooter as a story · 1 points
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