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Ethan Bond

Personal blog · figuregrounds.substack.combusinesscareer

Ethan Bond writes figure-grounds, a personal blog at figuregrounds.substack.com about business and career. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “View of management is upside down”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Figure-Grounds is about products, the organizations behind them, and the psychology behind the organizations.

Most-linked posts?

  1. View of management is upside down
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted View of management is upside down as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Your manager might write your check, but you’re the one paying them as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Fill your gut, then trust it as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted View of management is upside down as a story · 1 points

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