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Ian Kennedy
Personal blog · everwas.comstartupscareer
Ian Kennedy writes everwas, a personal blog at everwas.com about startups and career. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Ian Kennedy's blog covers childhood and playground history, such as the science behind playground equipment. One commenter linked a post on the witch's hat rotating hoop as an example of that writing.
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.
Ian Kennedy's blog and home of The Week That Was
What Hacker News says?
Example: https://everwas.com/2009/11/old-school-playground/ > there was also this rotating hoop called a witch's hat which taught early lessons in conservation of momentum and unbalanced mass rotation. I loved that thing. Back in kindergarten we'd get the young student teachers to spin us as fast as they could and then the brazen of us would let go for our first experiences with flight. I'm incredibly grateful to ha…
Comment linking /2009/11/old-school-playground/
on “The Surprisingly Scientific Roots of Monkey Bars”Submitted The Art of Product Management as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaving Yahoo - Going Mobile as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mining the NY Times Archives as a story · 1 points
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