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James Wallace Harris
Personal blog · auxiliarymemory.comculturewriting
James Wallace Harris writes Auxiliary Memory, a personal blog at auxiliarymemory.com about culture and writing. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post rereading The Soul of a New Machine, a 2017 post. The only comment is a bare link to it with a note that the earlier HN discussion is about a different book.
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.
Things I want to remember - James Wallace Harris
Most-linked posts?
- Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-29
- Counting the Components of My Consciousness2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-04
What Hacker News says?
Indeed: ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133653 ) and ( https://auxiliarymemory.com/2017/01/06/rereading-the-soul-of... ) ... and that's not the same book :)
Comment linking /2017/01/06/rereading-the-soul-of-a-new-machine-by-tracy-kidder/
on “The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine”Submitted Counting the Components of My Consciousness as a story · 73 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will Greed Destroy AI? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Counting the Components of My Consciousness (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Overwhelming Amount of History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantifying My Cognitive Decline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steve Jobs in Exile by Geoffrey Cain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Renting vs. Buying TV Shows as a story · 1 points
HN discussion