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Harrison Barnes
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Harrison Barnes writes Harrisonbarnes.com, a personal blog at harrisonbarnes.com about writing and philosophy. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger (2015)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link a post reproducing Charles Munger's talk on The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, which covers psychology-based tendencies that are useful but often mislead. It is cited as a starting point for life advice.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger (2015)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-13
What Hacker News says?
The first one I ran across was: https://www.harrisonbarnes.com/the-psychology-of-human-misju... I also like : https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Practice-Robert-B-Cialdini/ Who Munger mentions- actaully gave this guy some money as a tip. Also good reading: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/ Enough to get you started :) Have fun.
Comment linking /the-psychology-of-human-misjudgment-by-charles-t-munger/
on “Taking things less personally”Submitted My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009) as a story · 119 points
HN discussionThe Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger https://www.harrisonbarnes.com/the-psychology-of-human-misju... (You may wish to scroll down to "psychology-based tendencies that, while generally useful, often mislead")
Comment linking /the-psychology-of-human-misjudgment-by-charles-t-munger/
on “Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?”Submitted The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009) as a story · 1 points
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