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J. B. Rainsberger
Personal blog · blog.jbrains.caprogrammingcareer
J. B. Rainsberger writes The jbrains Blog, a personal blog at blog.jbrains.ca about programming and career. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The Importance of Aligning Authority with Responsibility (2010)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on ARA, alongside other articles, as a source on aligning ideas. The comment cites the post as support, with no judgement of its quality.
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.
Articles by J. B. Rainsberger on leadership, personal growth, and professional software development.
Most-linked posts?
- The Importance of Aligning Authority with Responsibility (2010)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-28
What Hacker News says?
There are several good articles discussing ARA: http://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/the-importance-of-aligning-... https://ssbg.co.nz/about/media/words-with-meaning-the-import... https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/fall-2016/d... For HN comments specifically, you might have read one of these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7184472 https://news.ycombinator.…
Comment linking /permalink/the-importance-of-aligning-authority-with-responsibility
on “Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?”Submitted The Importance of Aligning Authority with Responsibility (2010) as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Four Elements of Simple Design (2009) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Collective Struggle over Technical Debt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your daily scrum is killing your team – J. B. Rainsberger as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sooner, Not Faster: Revisited (and Intensified) (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Four Elements of Simple Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flow requires focus, not time as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
