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David Banach
Personal blog · dbanach.comwritingphilosophy
David Banach's personal blog at dbanach.com covers writing and philosophy. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Banach's posts on routine work, coffee and happiness. The comments cite Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus, and one commenter argues Camus was too optimistic about happiness. None judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
David Banach Poetry and Philosophy
Most-linked posts?
- /sisyphus.htm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-22
What Hacker News says?
> a long series of repetitive and routine work every day...aspects that are frictions / repetitiveness / tedious routines...this is what life is Thanks. Just reminded me of this: "One always finds one's burden again... He too concludes that all is well... Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man'…
Comment linking /sisyphus.htm
on “Coffee Is Hard”> When I said the names above I've got in mind something exactly opposite I wasn't making a judgment about the terms "creeps, weirdos, nerds and morons", I was merely reaching for a shorthand to refer to the groups you were discussing. I could have substituted in "people with mild autism" and have made the same point. > but the transit driver himself might be a happy person. He can follow his "special interests", he…
Comment linking /death.htm
on “Autistic Prodigies Since “Rain Man””The title of the post is a riff off of Albert Camus's essay The Myth Of Sisyphus [1]. He made a comparison between the absurdity of Sisyphus's curse (to roll a stone up a hill, over and over, forever) and the absurdity of everyday existence. He concluded that we should imagine Sisyphus happy. I think Camus was indulging in some wishful thinking there. I think happiness is too much to expect or demand, and having tha…
Comment linking /sisyphus.htm
on “One must imagine Sisyphus LOL-ing”