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Dan Na
Personal blog · blog.danielna.com · on HN as danielnacareerprogramming
Dan Na's personal blog at blog.danielna.com covers career and programming. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Creating an Accessibility Engineering Practice”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-18, 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 Dan Na's talk "Pushing through friction" as reading on how engineering teams fall into learned helplessness, alongside Dan Luu's normalization-of-deviance article.
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.
Dan Na's personal blog. Lessons from the technical leadership track.
Most-linked posts?
- Creating an Accessibility Engineering Practice2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-15
- Mile Method2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-11
- Pushing Through Friction [video]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-02
- Why and How to Start an Engineering Management Book Club2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-13
What Hacker News says?
Read Dan Luu's article about normalization of deviance, or Dan Na's talk "pushing through friction". https://blog.danielna.com/talks/pushing-through-friction/
Comment linking /talks/pushing-through-friction/
on “How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams”Submitted Choosing the Management Track as a story · 190 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Evertracker - My First Real Side Project as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why and How to Start an Engineering Management Book Club as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mile Method as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't change hearts, change workflows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Presenting to Executives as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Skip 1 on 1s as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating an Accessibility Engineering Practice as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted High Ownership, High Urgency as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pushing Through Friction [video] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mile Method as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starting an Engineering Management Book Club as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating an Accessibility Engineering Practice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Retrospective for Hacker School as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting a Job as a Front-End Developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cracker Barrel and Hackerschool as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evertracker - Making an iPhone App Video as a story · 1 points
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