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Ian Daniel Stewart
Personal blog · iandanielstewart.comwritingculture
Ian Daniel Stewart's personal blog at iandanielstewart.com covers writing and culture. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts cover the decline of Facebook and the state of news and facts, plus audience engagement. Comments quote one post and question the author's background, with no praise of the writing.
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.
That's me. This is my blog.
Most-linked posts?
- Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-10
What Hacker News says?
> The world changed, too. Facts used to matter; we read books and the newspaper, not 25 reasons to be an idiot on Buzzfeed. https://iandanielstewart.com/2017/06/16/the-golden-age-falla...
Comment linking /2017/06/16/the-golden-age-fallacy/
on “U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says”Submitted Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity as a story · 219 points
HN discussionso let’s take this article that was posted today, it was on the front page for a while that did not get flagged https://iandanielstewart.com/2024/06/09/engage-your-audience... Who is this guy? I can’t find a thing about his background on his blog and why I should believe anything he says in that article. I even looked for him online and nothing comes up. Maybe other people know who he is but I can’t figure it out. S…
Comment linking /2024/06/09/engage-your-audience-by-getting-to-the-point-using-story-structure-and-forcing-specificity/
on “Ask HN: I'm trying to understand flagging a submission”