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In Over Your Head

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In Over Your Head is a personal blog at inoveryourhead.net about culture and business. Since 2010, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “The Complete Guide to Not Giving a F**k”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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40mentions?
3recommend?
34HN people?
2010–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Julien Smith's posts, including 'Things I Should Have Known at 20' and 'The complete guide to not giving a fuck', which are about self-improvement and life advice. Comments mostly name or discuss them.

Recommended for · 3 comments
One commenter liked the 'Things I Should Have Known at 20' post; another named 'the complete guide to not giving a fuck' among inspirational posts; another call

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

social capital, trust agents, all that jazz

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Complete Guide to Not Giving a F**k
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-04-26
  2. Things I Should Have Known at 20
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-05-29
  3. The Short and Sweet Guide to Being F*cking Awesome
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-01-25
  4. New startup launches. Grandiose marketing? Check. See: "What is Breather?"
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-05
  5. Lessons I Learned Reading Over 200 Books
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-23
  6. How To Recognize an Idiot
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-29
  7. Maybe you should just stop being a f$#@*& P*&%$
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-03
  8. The Simple Guide to Growing Some #$%ing Balls
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. The OP link now leads to a different blog post. This seems to be the listed post: http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-2...

    Comment linking /20-things-i-should-have-known-at-20/

    on “Things I Should Have Known at 20”
  2. Submitted Things I Should Have Known at 20 as a story · 418 points

    HN discussion
  3. gizzlon · 2012-06-01Recommends
    Liked it, but he kind of goes against himself: "Otherwise known as morons on the internet telling me about the world like they know better. God, these people are unbelievable" http://inoveryourhead.net/how-to-recognize-an-idiot/ ops..

    Comment linking /how-to-recognize-an-idiot/

    on “Things I Should Have Known at 20”
  4. Submitted Things I Should Have Known at 20 as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  5. This isn’t a permalink, and it took me forever to find one (neither title nor date are permalinks? conventions mean nothing?) Submission URL should be changed to: http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-2...

    Comment linking /20-things-i-should-have-known-at-20/

    on “Things I Should Have Known at 20”
  6. Submitted The Complete Guide to Not Giving a F**k as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  7. Seems nice, though a bit slow. When copying quotes it would be even nicer if you could keep the formatting from the website. Bold text, lists etc. should be preserved when presented on your site. I thought the screenshot feature could have been a useful alternative, but for certain pages it doesn't really work: http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-2... - I'm not sure it can be solved in general…

    Comment linking /20-things-i-should-have-known-at-20/

    on “Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.”
  8. Submitted The Short and Sweet Guide to Being F*cking Awesome as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  9. hkmurakami · 2014-01-19Recommends
    the complete guide to not giving a fuck http://inoveryourhead.net/the-complete-guide-to-not-giving-a...

    Comment linking /the-complete-guide-to-not-giving-a-fuck/

    on “Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?”
  10. Submitted The complete guide to not giving a f*#k as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  11. Zeitgeisty at the moment: "being awesome" See also: This blog post by Julien Smith "The Short and Sweet Guide to Being Fucking Awesome" (2011) http://inoveryourhead.net/the-short-and-sweet-guide-to-being... and also the free kindle book "The Flinch" (late 2011) http://www.amazon.com/The-Flinch-ebook/dp/B0062Q7S3S/ref=sr_... I do think its good to overcome the shortcomings hamstringing your happiness. Still; There is…

    Comment linking /the-short-and-sweet-guide-to-being-fucking-awesome/

    on “How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead”
  12. Submitted Maybe you should just stop being a f$#@*& P*&%$ as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  13. codeslush · 2011-02-26Recommends
    The click-through is the real source of info: http://inoveryourhead.net/maybe-you-should-just-stop-being-a...

    Comment linking /maybe-you-should-just-stop-being-a-fucking-pussy/

    on “If I hear one more entrepreneur complain I’m going to puke”
  14. Submitted The Simple Guide to Growing Some #$%ing Balls as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. A new startup by Julien Smith. I've talked to him about this, it sounds like a necessary idea. Relaxing spaces to rent for work or rest, across North America. From what I've seen so far, his execution is good. Julien's the co-author of Trust Agents and author of Flinch. Launching a startup was not an obvious move for him as a non-technical solo founder, but he's a very perceptive, creative guy. I think this one's wo…

    Comment linking /what-is-breather/

    on “Breather raises 1.5 million in seed round”
  16. Submitted Sleep is awesome as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted 9 Ideas About the Future as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Cultural Transparency ÷ Risk = Upward Mobility as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Things I Changed To Present Like Steve Jobs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Two Major Drives: Happiness And Duty as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted The Simple Guide to Growing Some #$%ing Balls as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted The complete guide to not giving a fk as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted A Quick Thought About Anti-Social Douchebags as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Why You Should Quit the Internet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted The short guide to being f**king awesome. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted All social media experts "are actually the same person" as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Let the Idea Free as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted The Privatization of Culture and the Illusion of Depth as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Where the Poor Go as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted New startup launches. Grandiose marketing? Check. See: "What is Breather?" as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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