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Human Invariant
Personal blog · humaninvariant.com/blog · on HN as humaninvariantcultureeconomics
Human Invariant is a personal blog at humaninvariant.com about culture and economics. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Don't Build an Audience”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Opinionated, sometimes cynical essays on work, markets, status, incentives, and other topics that interest me.
Most-linked posts?
- Don't Build an Audience2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-13
- Title Arbitrage as Status Engineering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-13
- An Interview with a YouTube Writer Behind 500M+ Views2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-23
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Blame as a Service as a story · 127 points
HN discussionSubmitted No One Is Working as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Build an Audience as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted No One Is Working as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Interview with a YouTube Writer Behind 500M+ Views as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Title Arbitrage as Status Engineering as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why are late night conversations better? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why am I more productive late at night? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Interview with a YouTube Writer Behind 500M+ Views as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The lowercase aesthetic as cultural liberation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Title Arbitrage as Status Engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Build an Audience as a story · 1 points
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