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Donald Clark
Personal blog · donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.comotherculture
Donald Clark's personal blog at donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com covers culture. Since 2017, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Case Against Education – some inconvenient truths”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links Donald Clark's blog for critical posts on learning models, such as the 'Bogus pyramids' post arguing against representing Bloom's Taxonomy as a pyramid or hierarchy. Other comments cite studies on note-taking.
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 is Plan B? Not Plan A!
Most-linked posts?
- The Case Against Education – some inconvenient truths2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-24
What Hacker News says?
Not a single source of truth. The often cited study is [3] which shows longform writing to be more beneficial - it also comes to this conclusion: "Although more notes are beneficial, at least to a point, if the notes are taken indiscriminately or by mindlessly transcribing content, as is more likely the case on a lap-top than when notes are taken longhand, the benefit dis-appears." There was a follow-up study made (…
Comment linking /2022/01/is-handwriting-better-than-typing-for.html
on “Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?”Submitted Autism and gender imbalance in tech as a story · 155 points
HN discussionHere is a critical take on representing this as a hierarchy or a pyramid. Interesting to see that even learning institutions use a pyramid, or as shown in another comment a 3D pyramid. https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/07/bogus-pyramids...
Comment linking /2020/07/bogus-pyramids-learning-methods-maslow.html
on “Bloom’s Taxonomy”Submitted The idea that AI will just augment jobs never replace them as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turchin's Terrifying Predictions as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bogus pyramids: Learning methods, Maslow and Bloom as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disabling video may be better for online teaching and collaboration as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Words that worry me in AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bogus pyramids: Learning methods, Maslow and Bloom as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case Against Education as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case Against Education – some inconvenient truths as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is debate around 'bias in AI' driven by human bias? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 7 solid reasons to suppose that chatbot interfaces will work in learning as a story · 1 points
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