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Hunter Walk
Personal blog · hunterwalk.medium.comstartupsbusiness
Hunter Walk's personal blog at hunterwalk.medium.com covers startups and business. Since 2020, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Why a Paid Newsletter Won’t Be Enough Money for Most Writers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Medium post, which the comments describe as being about why a paid newsletter won't work. One comment cites it in a list of sources on side projects and focus, but only as a bare link.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why a Paid Newsletter Won’t Be Enough Money for Most Writers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-23
- A Tech Millionaire’s Guide to Philanthropy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-29
- There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-18
- Sorry Startup Employee #100, Your Equity Probably Won’t Make You Rich2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-24
What Hacker News says?
there's a long literature of: - why even VCs diversify bets - why working on side things helps your main thing - how Nobel prizewinners are 3x more likely than the average scientist to have creative hobbies - https://hunterwalk.medium.com/why-a-paid-newsletter-wont-be-... and so on. i didnt say that having 4 things is spreading yourself thin. its just a really unscientific thing to assert without proof that having o…
Comment linking /why-a-paid-newsletter-wont-be-enough-money-for-most-writers-and-that-s-fine-the-multi-sku-f41daa074cdb
on “Progress Over Perfection”Submitted There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company” as a story · 635 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why a Paid Newsletter Won’t Be Enough Money for Most Writers as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Startup Pitch Deck Mistakes That Are Red Flags for Venture Investors as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Figma Is Worth $20B and Other Observations from the Adobe Acquisition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Startup ‘Pivots’ Aren’t Pivots as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted In This Market, It’s a Great Time for a Mutual “Try Before You Buy” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tech Millionaire’s Guide to Philanthropy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Don’t Talk Enough About Money in Silicon Valley, Revisited as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Don’t Talk Enough About Money in Silicon Valley (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted “I can see us leading this funding round,” isn't a Term Sheet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conan O’Brien Wraps Up 28 Years of Late Night, I Was an Idiot to Leave the Show as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why There’s No Such Thing as “A Startup Within a Big Company” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Acquihire Market for Early Stage Startups Is Ice Cold as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Industry Needs to Do One Thing to Avoid Regulation: Provide Better Phone Support as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2022’s Startup Layoffs Will Result in 2023 Startup Wind Downs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Staying “Default Investable” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When should VCs sell early as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted More New Hires Are Ghosting Before Their Start Date. Here’s How to Prevent That as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hunter Walk: Why I’m Not Telling Every Startup to ‘Pull the Brakes’ Just Yet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep Your Personal Burn Rate Low to Maximize Your Options as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Give Away My Money. And Perhaps How You Can Too! as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sorry Startup Employee #100, Your Equity Probably Won’t Make You Rich as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sorry Startup Employee #100, Your Equity Probably Won’t Make You Rich as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why a Paid Newsletter Won’t Be Enough Money for Most Writers (and That’s Fine) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coinbase’s Culture Memo: Not Good, Not Bad as a story · 1 points
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