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Ian Leslie
Personal blog · ian-leslie.comculturewriting
Ian Leslie's personal blog at ian-leslie.com covers culture and writing. Since 2023, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “27 Notes on Growing Old(er)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Essays on culture, psychology and media. Cited for a critique of Guardian science coverage; one comment recommends a long read on the Beatles' Get Back sessions.
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.
Ian Leslie is a British journalist, speaker, and author of acclaimed books on human behaviour. His latest book, CONFLICTED, is about how to disagree better.
Most-linked posts?
- 27 Notes on Growing Old(er)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-07
- Stories are bad for your intelligence: How Historians Make Themselves Stupid2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-03
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, I see this quite a fair bit from The Guardian. A recent example [0] that was called out here [1] and a recent discussion on HN here [2]. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-r... [1] https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/stories-are-bad-for-your-intell... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37373257
Comment linking /p/stories-are-bad-for-your-intelligence
on “Depression can play direct role in developing type 2 diabetes, says study”Submitted The End Of History: Academic historians are destroying their own discipline as a story · 38 points
HN discussionThere is an epic, enjoyable read about “Get Back” from someone who deeply knows The Beatles in case you missed it the first turning. https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-banality-of-genius-notes-on...
Comment linking /p/the-banality-of-genius-notes-on-peter
on “The Beatles' Collaborative Notes: 3 Ways to Write a Song”Submitted Notes on the Greatest Night in Pop as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Growing Old(er) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 27 Notes on Growing Old(er) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Battle of Bamber Bridge as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Growing Old(er) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Orangutan Theory of Intelligence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten Useful Concepts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rational Ritual: Why Everyone Needs to Know What Everyone Knows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Mad Men Lost the Plot Again as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons There Won't Be an AI Jobs Apocalypse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did John Lennon think he was Jesus? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Use ChatGPT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Only trust people with imposter syndrome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stories are bad for your intelligence: How Historians Make Themselves Stupid as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
