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David Golden
Personal blog · xdg.meprogrammingcareer
David Golden's personal blog at xdg.me covers programming and career. Since 2019, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “80/20 is half-ass when value is logistic”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link to a post on using 80/20 prioritisation, pointing to it as a response to a thread about 80/20 as a productivity idea. The comments do not assess 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.
The personal website of David Golden (xdg)
Most-linked posts?
- 80/20 is half-ass when value is logistic4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-05-07
- How to mentor software engineers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-04
What Hacker News says?
Hello, author here, surprising that this one caught on when my own post didn't ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26973194 ), I still don't understand the HN algorithm... I want to be clear that there are great reasons to use 80/20-ing https://xdg.me/80-20/ and I do use it myself. I'm just expressing a latent feeling/worry that too many people think it is the secret to success because 80/20 authors try to 80/20…
Comment linking /80-20/
on “80/20 is the new Half-Ass”Submitted How to mentor software engineers as a story · 319 points
HN discussionAnd a response! https://xdg.me/80-20/
Comment linking /80-20/
on “80/20 is the new Half-Ass”Submitted How to Mentor Software Engineers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rewriting Go with AST Transformation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking the Job Interview as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 80/20 is half-ass when value is logistic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go as Glue: JSON and XML and PNG = PDF as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 80/20 is half-ass when value is logistic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A better way to learn a new codebase as a story · 1 points
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