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Jared Henderson
Personal blog · jaredhenderson.substack.comphilosophywriting
Jared Henderson writes Commonplace Philosophy, a personal blog at jaredhenderson.substack.com about philosophy and writing. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, 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 Substack for essays on the modern malaise and instrumental reason. One commenter points to it as a good read on the topic of authenticity.
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.
Philosophy for everyday life.
What Hacker News says?
A useful term here is “instrumental reason.” The Ethics of Authenticity is a good read on the topic: https://jaredhenderson.substack.com/p/the-modern-malaise?r=5...
Comment linking /p/the-modern-malaise?r=5dwulj&utm_medium=ios
on “After Math”Submitted A company wanted to make an AI clone of me. Here's what I said as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Philosophy Lectures on YouTube as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 'Literacy Crisis' – More Than You Wanted to Know as a story · 1 points
HN discussion