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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.
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?
- The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-21
- Google wreaks havoc on our company’s calendars: lost data and security breaches2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-10
- Useful daily standup meetings for remote teams2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-30
- How to display threaded discussions on the web2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-21
- How to be less boring2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-23
- The biggest mistakes product managers make2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-04
- Product Management for well-established products2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-19
- How to build an audience in 743 difficult steps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-07
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition as a story · 396 points
HN discussionAh 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”Submitted Please let this not be the future of reading on the web as a story · 274 points
HN discussionPositive 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”Submitted A life less posted as a story · 256 points
HN discussionSubmitted What happens when placeholder text doesn’t get replaced as a story · 246 points
HN discussionSubmitted A story about Miles Davis and the nature of true genius as a story · 116 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google wreaks havoc on our company’s calendars: lost data and security breaches as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Circles and Path 2.0: How good UI design cannot fix a broken solution as a story · 77 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it time to stop writing headlines that end in question marks? as a story · 73 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clear: doing for To Do lists what Dropbox did for file syncing as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted Small but significant usability sins that websites should never commit as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted The mystery of Google+ as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Guardian’s bogus claim about money, long commutes, and life satisfaction as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted The dirty world of Facebook EdgeRank Optimization as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I’m sticking with Instapaper as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted RSS FTW as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to change someone’s mind on the Internet as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The dangerous gap between those who make software, and those who use it as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Think Different (as long as enough people will like or retweet it) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New York Times non-apology, and the end of lazy marketing language as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using mind mapping to clarify your job and bring order to task-switching chaos as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on a week of tech consulting in Iran as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted What a Product Manager should focus on in the first 90 days as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to be less boring as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to do what you love, the right way as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop telling us how much everything sucks as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The necessity of risk and failure in the creative process as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What children’s drawings would look like if it were painted realistically as a story · 5 points
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