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Dave Trott
Personal blog · davetrott.co.ukbusinessculture
Dave Trott's personal blog at davetrott.co.uk covers business and culture. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dave Trott's blog for advertising and copywriting, and a post on the psychology of arson. Comments describe his one-sentence paragraph style and the arson post without judging the writing.
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.
WHAT DO THE RULES SAY WE CAN’T DO? - Dave Trott's Blog
What Hacker News says?
Tell that to Dave Trott, who is an influential British advertising copywriter. All of his writing comes in the form of one sentence paragraphs. There's whole books of it! https://davetrott.co.uk/
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on “Writing well”Submitted The difference between brand and branding as a story · 3 points
HN discussioninteresting link initially about arsonists psychological state, examples http://davetrott.co.uk/2019/02/stop-arson-about/
Comment linking /2019/02/stop-arson-about/
on “Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral”Submitted The Experts Predict Everything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Power of Ignorance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A thing can be both real and fake as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strategy is sacrifice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 20/20 Hindsight as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maybe is the worst answer as a story · 1 points
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