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Higher Logic

Company blog · blog.vanillaforums.comwebbusiness

Higher Logic is the company blog at blog.vanillaforums.com, writing about web and business. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2014–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers cite this Higher Logic post as the "Jeremy Clarkson Effect" on dealing with toxic high performers. One commenter links it while asking whether to keep high performers who cause conflict and turnover.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. I'm curious if it's actually worth keeping high performing people on your company if they create a lot of internal conflict and employee turnover. Have there been studies that have looked into this? Are there HR tools that track this? This situation reminds me of the Jeremy Clarkson Effect ( https://blog.vanillaforums.com/help/how-to/dealing-with-toxi... ) where you keep people on board because they are high perform…

    Comment linking /help/how-to/dealing-with-toxic-community-member/

    on “Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber”
  2. Submitted Biggest DevRel Challenges (and how to mitigate them) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Vanilla Forums (hosted) Adds GitHub Integration as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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