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Ian Eslick
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Ian Eslick writes Frumious Abstractions, a personal blog at ianeslick.com about programming, health and startups. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-20, 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 blog's post on using more of the brain, which argues that intelligence comes from compiling experience into higher-order patterns within existing brain capacity. One commenter quoted it in a discussion of developer economics.
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.
Writing on health, technology, and business
What Hacker News says?
Ian Eslick put it interestingly ( http://ianeslick.com/using-100-of-your-brain ): "If we really want to become smarter, we will have to resort to the hard work of building more effective representations within the existing processing capabilities of our brain. Modern neuroscience backs me up here (e.g. summary in nice NPR interview); the process of compiling our experience into higher and higher order patterns that…
Comment linking /using-100-of-your-brain
on “The Rise of Developeronomics”Submitted Clojure Debugging: Emacs, nREPL, and Ritz as a story · 88 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advanced Clojure nRepl inspector middleware as a story · 1 points
HN discussion