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Elezea

Personal blog · elezea.comdesignproductivitybusiness

Elezea is a personal blog at elezea.com about design, productivity and business. Since 2011, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 192 times, most often “The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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192mentions?
21HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 81 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Elezea posts as background on Google's acquisition of Sparrow, Google Calendar data loss, and user-centred organisations. The comments cite them without judging the writing.

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?

  1. The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-21
  2. Google wreaks havoc on our company’s calendars: lost data and security breaches
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-10
  3. Useful daily standup meetings for remote teams
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-30
  4. How to display threaded discussions on the web
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-21
  5. How to be less boring
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-23
  6. The biggest mistakes product managers make
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-04
  7. Product Management for well-established products
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-19
  8. How to build an audience in 743 difficult steps
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. I wonder if this post has anything to do with it: http://www.elezea.com/2012/12/google-calendar-lost-data-secu...

    Comment linking /2012/12/google-calendar-lost-data-security-breach/

    on “Gmail.com was down”
  2. Submitted The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition as a story · 396 points

    HN discussion
  3. Ah there's a better post explaining what I mean: http://www.elezea.com/2012/07/sparrow-google-acquisition/

    Comment linking /2012/07/sparrow-google-acquisition/

    on “Entitlement and Acquisition”
  4. Submitted Please let this not be the future of reading on the web as a story · 274 points

    HN discussion
  5. Positive spins: http://holacracy.org/ http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-d... http://www.elezea.com/2012/06/user-centered-organizations/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8955706 Negative spin: http://www.wired.com/2014/03/tyranny-flatness/

    Comment linking /2012/06/user-centered-organizations/

    on “How Elementary School Teachers Biases Can Discourage Girls from Math and Science”
  6. Submitted A life less posted as a story · 256 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted What happens when placeholder text doesn’t get replaced as a story · 246 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A story about Miles Davis and the nature of true genius as a story · 116 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Google wreaks havoc on our company’s calendars: lost data and security breaches as a story · 93 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Google Circles and Path 2.0: How good UI design cannot fix a broken solution as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Is it time to stop writing headlines that end in question marks? as a story · 73 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Clear: doing for To Do lists what Dropbox did for file syncing as a story · 64 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Small but significant usability sins that websites should never commit as a story · 50 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The mystery of Google+ as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The Guardian’s bogus claim about money, long commutes, and life satisfaction as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted The dirty world of Facebook EdgeRank Optimization as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Why I’m sticking with Instapaper as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted RSS FTW as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted How to change someone’s mind on the Internet as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted The dangerous gap between those who make software, and those who use it as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Think Different (as long as enough people will like or retweet it) as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted The New York Times non-apology, and the end of lazy marketing language as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Using mind mapping to clarify your job and bring order to task-switching chaos as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Reflections on a week of tech consulting in Iran as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted What a Product Manager should focus on in the first 90 days as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted How to be less boring as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted How to do what you love, the right way as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Stop telling us how much everything sucks as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted The necessity of risk and failure in the creative process as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted What children’s drawings would look like if it were painted realistically as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion

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