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Consulting Adult
Personal blog · consultingadultblog.blogspot.comcareerculture
Consulting Adult is a personal blog at consultingadultblog.blogspot.com about career and culture. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Gossip and revelations from an early Sun employee”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog by Nancy Householder Hauge, who did HR at Sun Microsystems, for its Sun stories such as the "Life in the Boys' Dorm" series and a post on CEO archetypes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Gossip and revelations from an early Sun employee3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-02-16
- /2010/01/life-in-boys-dorm-my-career-at-sun.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-23
What Hacker News says?
Just a random addition. Someone in this thread posited that this was "Patty" as mentioned in this blog post I read today. http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/unreasonable... I just thought it was incredibly interesting how a person can be so polarizing. This person acts like she walks on water!
Comment linking /2010/10/unreasonable-indeed.html
on “Working at Netflix”Submitted Gossip and revelations from an early Sun employee as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you want some Sun nostalgia, http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/ is good. She used to have a lot more, but deleted most of them. You can probably find them on the wayback machine though.
Comment linking /
on “We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up (2015)”Really enjoyed reading that. Just got through the first two. Here's a list of the links for anyone who wants to read em all. (reverse order) http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/life-in-boys... http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/life-in-boys... http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/life-in-boys... http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/life-in-boys... http://consultingadult…
Comment linking /2010/01/life-in-boys-dorm-my-career-at-sun.html
on “Life in the Boy's Dorm: My Career at Sun Microsystems”Part 2 is here: http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/life-in-boys...
Comment linking /2010/01/life-in-boys-dorm-my-career-at-sun_30.html
on “Life in the Boy's Dorm: My Career at Sun Microsystems”A more humorous take on the same topic is http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/junk-food-fi... .
Comment linking /2009/03/junk-food-first-published-in-2005.html
on “Getting rid of free office snacks doesn't come cheap”There are two questions here. One is why are the men who become leaders incompetent. I think it has nailed that one. The other is why men become leaders and women don't. I think it found one contributing factor, but not a cause. Read http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/ceo-archetyp... for insight into other factors that contribute to men having a significant advantage in the hierarchy over men.
Comment linking /2010/09/ceo-archetypes-7-joan-of-arc.html
on “Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?”She's a woman. She's a CEO. She's guaranteed to have a target on her back. See http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/ceo-archetyp... for a description of what is still reality in the working world. That said, people I personally know who have worked with her are luke-cold. But I'm sure that the same people would prefer her over the average Yahoo exec in a heartbeat. And I'm more optimistic about Yahoo's di…
Comment linking /2010/09/ceo-archetypes-7-joan-of-arc.html
on “Marissa Mayer Has “Many Enemies””For lots more great stories about Sun, check out Nancy Householder Hauge's blog: http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/ She did HR at Sun for years. Look for the entries titled "Life in the Boy's Dorm" on the right sidebar. When I found these I couldn't stop reading them.
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on “April Fool Pranks in Sun Microsystems Over the Years”For more Sun stories, the "Life in the Boys' Dorm" blog series is a great read. Here's the first post -- there doesn't seem to be a single page aggregating them all: http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/life-in-boys...
Comment linking /2010/01/life-in-boys-dorm-my-career-at-sun.html
on “After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, Stories Come Out”It has been managed before. Read the story of Johnny DLP at http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/life-in-boys... where Sun got someone to have a workrelease for 2 months out of a 3 month sentence.
Comment linking /2010/02/life-in-boys-dorm-my-career-at-sun_03.html
on “Ask HN: Key employee probably going to prison. How do we best tell investors?”