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DCaulfield
Personal blog · dcaulfield.comcareerproductivity
DCaulfield is a personal blog at dcaulfield.com about career and productivity. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “ChatGPT for Learning and Development Managers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link the site's posts on developer use of ChatGPT and on onboarding antipatterns. One cites a ChatGPT post as an example of LLM-style prose, and another flags a misconfigured page on the site.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- ChatGPT for Learning and Development Managers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-11
- Team Lead Anti-Patterns2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-18
What Hacker News says?
https://dcaulfield.com I took a look of inspiration from a couple of other sites I saw around. I wanted it to be simple and straight to the point. I know nobody reads it, but it's just a place for me to write my thoughts and hopefully use it as a reference for future employment.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Team Improvement Techniques as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post looking at a similar vein: https://www.dcaulfield.com/mastery-4-ai If everyone uses AI, then the standard of mastery hasn't lowered - it's increased! We're now caught in a dilemma: Do we play the short term game and use AI at the expense of our skills, or do we play the long term game and avoid AI where possible to build up expertise while risking being out-competed by everyone else who is using…
Comment linking /mastery-4-ai
on “AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery”Submitted Techniques for Difficult Team Members as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI just started a blog / website last year @ https://dcaulfield.com . Currently, I'm building up my knowledge of devops and product management. I welcome any feedback anyone has!
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on “Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?”Submitted Team Lead Anti-Patterns as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://www.dcaulfield.com/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Protect Your Team from Weekend Work as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLots of signal that this top post is now an LLM an not "an Irish man". The generous use of dashes to complete the thought process..have a look: https://www.dcaulfield.com/chatgpt-learning-dev See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291513
Comment linking /chatgpt-learning-dev
on “Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe”Submitted Team improvement techniques as a story · 4 points
HN discussionyour website is badly misconfigured. Going to the https://www.dcaulfield.com/onboarding-antipatterns/kudos page shows people your application source code
Comment linking /onboarding-antipatterns/kudos
on “Onboarding Antipatterns”Submitted How to Communicate Specifications with Examples as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning Antipatterns as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What do leaders do? Communicate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Manage Your Team's Bugs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extreme Product Ownership as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Little Known Tips to Listen Effectively as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How your team can save 100's of hours of work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memory Still Matters in the Age of ChatGPT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything Should Have a Timeline as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effective Stakeholder Engagement in Learning and Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strategising as a Learning and Development Manager as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT for Learning and Development Managers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything Should Have a Timeline as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Theatre in the Workplace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to develop a Learning and Development Vision as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Participate in a Retro as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Onboarding Antipatterns as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Onboarding Antipatterns as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problem solving beyond root cause analysis as a story · 1 points
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