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Eclogiselle
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Eclogiselle is a personal blog at eclogiselle.com about economics, politics and design. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-24, and you can follow it by feed.
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There's not much there and it's not very good: https://butterflyeconomy.blogspot.com/ These are both related projects and I think they are vastly better: https://projectsro.blogspot.com/ http://www.eclogiselle.com/ (If you don't see any relationship between the three: Sorry.)
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on “Just Be Rich”Submitted Policies that make the poor less poor as a story · 223 points
HN discussionhttps://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/ The sidebar links out to other things by me: Write Pay, Pocket Puter, The Genevieve Files, What Helps The Homeless, San Diego Homeless Survival Guide, r/GigWorks I also run r/CitizenPlanners and I'm the author or Eclogiselle.com and Project: SRO and The Butterfly Economy http://www.eclogiselle.com/ http://projectsro.blogspot.com http://butterflyeconomy.blogspot.com/ Things d…
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on “Dating in Delhi when you're poor”Submitted Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else. as a story · 133 points
HN discussionThis has been updated. Thank you so much for your fantastic feedback: http://www.eclogiselle.com/2020/10/free-and-custom-flyers-as...
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on “The Niche I am Looking to Fill”Submitted The Niche I am Looking to Fill as a story · 82 points
HN discussionThere are a couple of things there already that are not fake mockups but real world examples of things I do: http://www.eclogiselle.com/2020/10/free-and-custom-flyers-as... http://www.eclogiselle.com/2020/10/design-work-case-study.ht... I'm not a fan of fake mockups. I strongly prefer real world examples and I'm unlikely to ever do any outright fake mockups. I'm basically inventing a new approach, so my methods aren…
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on “The Niche I am Looking to Fill”Submitted Social capital is the key to community development as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThat money is not being "donated." It is patronage because some people value my writing. Some of them have explicitly stated they were willing to join my Patreon because of my track record of hitting the front page of HN with unique content about homelessness and related issues. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22417487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
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on “The Niche I am Looking to Fill”Submitted Housing supply and demand in one screenshot as a story · 9 points
HN discussionLow hanging fruit: donate old but still usable tech to local programs that pass such out. Volunteering at local organizations that do such work is another possibility. I wrote a piece called So You Want to do a Website to Help the Homeless that might interest you: https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/05/so-you-want... The local police department does -- or did at one time -- pass out flyers I made listing o…
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on “Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to help me”Submitted Maps and Mental Models as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dark Side as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Small Communities and the Bigger Picture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Butterfly Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing The Thing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Community Beautification: Oxygen Is Beautiful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benefits Packages for Small and Micro Businesses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Citizen Planning in Unincorporated Communities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Education, Training and Opportunity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Small Scale Community Development Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defining “Downtown” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polder Politics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gems Hidden in the Folds of Time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lucky Jaguar as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted So you think there are no rules as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never Split the Difference as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fostering Meaningful Discussion in Low Trust Environments as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Ounce of Prevention as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs as a story · 1 points
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