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Durmonski.com
Personal blog · durmonski.com · on HN as durmonskiproductivityphilosophy
Durmonski.com is a personal blog at durmonski.com about productivity and philosophy. Since 2019, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 164 times, most often “What Is Self-Regulated Learning and Why Is It Important?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked once as the home of someone whose productivity and scheduling approach was discussed on HN. No comment judges the writing itself, and the other comments do not mention the site.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- What Is Self-Regulated Learning and Why Is It Important?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-12
- Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-04
- Books I Read in 20202 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-01
- Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-28
- Great things never came from comfort zones2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-08
- I Suddenly Lost My Enthusiasm for Interneting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-24
- Show HN: Big Ideas and Books Explained Simply2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-05
- Process Goals > Outcome-Based Goals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-21
- The benefits of staying off social media2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-08
- The Myth of the 1% Better Every Day Theory2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-07
What Hacker News says?
I've never actually used this, but I remember the story from a few days ago from a guy who's doing exactly that? https://durmonski.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24469292 If you use it, tell us how it is :)
Comment linking /
on “Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habits, work”Submitted Reasons to Quit Social Media as a story · 421 points
HN discussionupdate: Edited for typos. A markdown file. I do my daily journaling in a markdown file anyway (Today's Daily Note is `2022-08-22.md`). I have a simple script to create today's Daily Note with `$ jrnl` and open it in my editor of choice (Which happens to be vim). The Daily Note is created by copying a template file. The first header of that template is a simple markdown table with a column for each hour and 6 rows (e…
Comment linking /productivity/daily-planner-for-minimal
on “Ask HN: What are the best tools to set and track personal goals?”Submitted The benefits of staying off social media as a story · 370 points
HN discussionI actually agree to be honest. The experience as a junior DevOps or sysadmin and now web developer. Has been bad, from the guy that rejected me and didn't know the differences between CentOS and Debian, too security people who can't do anything on Linux, I have no clue how it works and couldn't even install a VM. To other people that that didn't know how to the browser worked. Not in the sense of depth, but more lik…
Comment linking /life-advice/guide-how-not-to-be-stupid/
on “Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence”Submitted Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart? as a story · 333 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous as a story · 285 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I stay motivated working on my long-term project as a story · 238 points
HN discussionSubmitted My life after quitting social media as a story · 192 points
HN discussionSubmitted Must-read psychology books as a story · 164 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Mind-Wandering and How You Use It to Your Advantage? as a story · 97 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Escape the Modern Rat Race as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book Summary: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great things never came from comfort zones as a story · 57 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Normalcy: Why Being Normal Can Be Dangerous as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted I read 100 books in the last 2 years – here are 10 thoughts on reading as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Went from Reading 40 Books a Year to Reading 0 as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book Summary: Atomic Habits by James Clear as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mental Models for Learning as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Suddenly Lost My Enthusiasm for Interneting as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Materialism in Society and How We Can Overcome It as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Stupid Person’s Guide on How Not to Be Stupid [with Pictures] as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Habituation and Its Role in the Modern World as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to Do When You Finish Reading a Book as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the lack of feedback is the main reason you quit (everything) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Critical Thinking Process (Or Acting Wisely Even If You’re Not Bright) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The magic of showing up every day as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Self-Regulated Learning and Why Is It Important? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Short Lessons from 21 Long Books as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You're Still Unsuccessful as a story · 3 points
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