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cuppacocoa
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cuppacocoa is a personal blog at cuppacocoa.com about culture and career. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “A Better Way to Say Sorry”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on teaching children how to apologize. One commenter says it reflects where public and private apologies usually fall short.
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.
parenting . education . marriage . food
Most-linked posts?
- A Better Way to Say Sorry3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-19
What Hacker News says?
A year or two ago, I came across the following post on teaching young kids how to apologize: http://www.cuppacocoa.com/a-better-way-to-say-sorry/ The thing that struck me about it is that in the process of explaining the core of what makes a meaningful apology to children, it does a really nice job of reflecting where, exactly, most public (and, really, private!) apologies tend to fall down. A good addition to this…
Comment linking /a-better-way-to-say-sorry/
on “Why most public apologies suck”Submitted A Better Way to Say Sorry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be Less to Be More as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Better Way to Say Sorry as a story · 2 points
HN discussion