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Gil Kazimirov

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Gil Kazimirov writes The Damn Optimist, a personal blog at damnoptimist.substack.com about career and culture. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Confessions of a Recovering Corpspeaker”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-04, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2021

An optimist’s take on tech, humans and personal growth. And a little bit of hip-hop too.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Confessions of a Recovering Corpspeaker
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Things I Didn't Learn in 2020 as a story · 150 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Revolutionaries at the Workplace as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Read the Damn Documentation as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted Confessions of a Recovering Corpspeaker as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Covid: The Optimistic Case for Mental Health as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Books I Didn't Read in 2021 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Confessions of a Reformed Corpspeaker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Ringtones: How a forgotten piece of pop culture sparked the mobile revolution as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Healthcare Great Migration as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted What I Learned from Tracking My Anxiety Every Day as a story · 1 points

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