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Jack Simpson

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Jack Simpson's personal blog at jacksimpson.co covers data, economics and science. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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18mentions?
4HN people?
2015–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2017

Most-linked posts?

  1. If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. jbsimpson · 2017-01-15

    Submitted If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive as a story · 426 points

    HN discussion
  2. jbsimpson · 2017-01-17

    Submitted This is how you hustle as a story · 108 points

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  3. jbsimpson · 2017-01-23

    Submitted There are two types of to-do lists as a story · 10 points

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  4. jbsimpson · 2021-07-26

    Submitted How does AEMO predict demand in the National Electricity Market? as a story · 5 points

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  5. jbsimpson · 2017-09-11

    Submitted An interesting scam as a story · 3 points

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  6. jbsimpson · 2017-09-02

    Submitted Honeybees and missing data as a story · 3 points

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  7. jonbaer · 2015-06-10

    Submitted Materials for Learning Machine Learning as a story · 3 points

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  8. jbsimpson · 2021-06-21

    Submitted Electricity Market Modelling Materials as a story · 2 points

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  9. jbsimpson · 2017-10-27

    Submitted How to write a conclusion as a story · 2 points

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  10. jbsimpson · 2017-09-18

    Submitted Fantastic thesis quotes page as a story · 2 points

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  11. jbsimpson · 2019-11-16

    Submitted How to verify the analysis of your data scientist as a story · 1 points

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  12. raheemm · 2019-02-02

    Submitted If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive as a story · 1 points

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  13. jbsimpson · 2017-10-28

    Submitted Genomics and healthcare as a story · 1 points

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  14. jbsimpson · 2017-10-17

    Submitted Fruit flies, honeybees, and alcohol as a story · 1 points

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  15. jbsimpson · 2017-10-04

    Submitted Ant search optimisation as a story · 1 points

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  16. jbsimpson · 2017-09-09

    Submitted Honeybees and missing data: Where do bees like to live? as a story · 1 points

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  17. jbsimpson · 2017-01-19

    Submitted What does it mean to finish a project? as a story · 1 points

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  18. bemmu · 2017-01-14

    Submitted If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive as a story · 1 points

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