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Dean Yeong

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Dean Yeong's personal blog at deanyeong.com covers productivity and writing. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3HN people?
2016–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Dean Yeong's posts on how people learn new things. One commenter cites them in a thread on Joseph Campbell's daily study routine, arguing for spending more time learning new skills.

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.

Dean Yeong is a writer, marketer, and cofounder of Wolo Yoga. Ex-AppSumo, 2x Quora Top Writer, featured in Inc., HuffPost, and Observer.

What Hacker News says?

  1. There is a case that can be made in which we should spend more time learning new skills, improving on those new skills, than mastering the same skills over and over. Edit: Spend more time in zones 1 and 2. https://deanyeong.com/how-we-learn-new-things/

    Comment linking /how-we-learn-new-things/

    on “Joseph Campbell’s daily routine for “the most important period of my study””
  2. Submitted How to read more: Simple three-step system as a story · 92 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Productivity tips for procrastinators, multitaskers, and everyone else in between as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted 10 Essential Life Skills That Everyone Should Know and Master as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Learn anything fast using this technique by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Power of Roleplay: Stanford Prison Experiment as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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