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Garrick van Buren
Personal blog · garrickvanburen.combusinessaicareer
Garrick van Buren's personal blog at garrickvanburen.com covers business, ai and career. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one commenter, the creator of Skycraft, links a Garrick van Buren archive post as an inspiration for releasing their WebGL Minecraft clone early. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I am finite. Though, sometimes I forget.
What Hacker News says?
This. It took me years to realize simply going to be easier was, not only the obvious answer, but also the cheapest & most sustainable. https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/how-i-learned-to-get-up-...
Comment linking /archive/how-i-learned-to-get-up-before-my-kids/
on “Sleep as a Competitive Advantage”Submitted Your Minimum Viable Product is Processing Credit Cards as a story · 171 points
HN discussionI prefer Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect or Knoll’s Law of Media Accuracy “AI is amazing about the thing I know nothing about…but it’s absolute garbage at the stuff I’m expert in.” https://garrickvanburen.com/an-increasingly-worse-response/
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on “AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service”Submitted Kernest is public - @font-face service as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA few years back, I picked up a Zeo to help answer why I didn't feel rested in the morning. If you had told me the deceptively simple answer before I purchased the Zeo, I would have dismissively laughed at you. Today, the Zeo collects dust and I'm in bed before 10:30p. Full write up here: https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/how-i-learned-to-get-up-...
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on “Exist”Submitted TL;DR: The calendar is the vessel, not the inbox. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor the last 4 months, my daily goal has been 'no client work before lunch' [1]. I'm happier, healthier, and more focused on the important things than I have been my entire professional life. 1. https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/no-client-work-before-lu...
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on “Working shorter hours may also be good for your health”Submitted The Return of Doggerland? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHi, the creator here! :) You have many good points, and the main point I want to address is: why let people buy it already? I have thought quite a lot about that, so here are some of my reasons for releasing early: - Why not sell it? What do I lose? :) Many people might not buy it now, but some actually have, and that's great! I think this post might also have been an inspiration: https://garrickvanburen.com/archive…
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on “Skycraft: Minecraft clone in WebGL”Submitted What The Princess Bride Can Teach Independent Consultants as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's a bit I wrote in 2010 about Twitter's tightening controls https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/twitter-poured-cement-in...
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on “The Twitter Platform is Dead, Long Live the Twitter Social Network”Submitted The iPad mini is about killing the iPod touch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's not just Twitter - the language in their revised Terms of Service are also in the Terms of Service other similar web services; Facebook, WordPress.com, Blogger, Tumblr, Posterous, etc, etc. http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/terms-of-services-kinda-l...
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on “Twitter can sell and sub-license all content, photos, etc you share on Twitter”Submitted What if You Forced Apple into the App Store? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://garrickvanburen.com/blog/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted The Apple iPad is an Ambient Information Device as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote this back in 2023, and I think it holds “After compiling all these, it still seems neutral to net negative. Maybe a net positive on the customer service side.“ https://garrickvanburen.com/media-tetrad-generative-ai/
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on “The AI Productivity Illusion”Submitted IPad is a portable Apple TV as a story · 2 points
HN discussion“In the end, if I’m successful, I’ll have this one bread recipe adapted/developed, and if written out comprehensively for someone else (even future me), it will likely be >4 pages.” https://garrickvanburen.com/only-finding-the-non-obvious-mat...
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on “The anxiety of the perfect loaf: the illusion of culinary precision”Submitted Towards Seed Tuition, Not Seed Investment for Startups as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's lots of reasons Public-access TV no longer makes sense, not just YouTube. Here's an essay I wrote on the issue back in 2005 - http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/add-cable-public-access-t...
Comment linking /archive/add-cable-public-access-to-the-endangered-species-list
on “Public-access TV in YouTube era? City budget crunch forces debate”Submitted Strategic Leadership Is Lacking, Not Trust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Cargo Culting Startup Accelerators as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Only Finding the Non-Obvious Matters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Time (Or on the Founder-Idea Obsession) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are They a Customer? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generative AI Run Through McLuhan’s Media Tetrad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is This a Good Idea? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Staying on Track 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Measuring Growth in Your 'Return on Lifestyle' Business as a story · 1 points
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