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Jason Zweig
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Jason Zweig's personal blog at jasonzweig.com covers economics and business. Since 2015, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Three Ways to Get Paid”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-25, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers quote Jason Zweig's posts on Wall Street, finance, and media, especially his 'three ways to make a living' line about lying and telling the truth. One commenter links his writing-advice series.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Three Ways to Get Paid4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-08-07
What Hacker News says?
> The people who succeed the most with fraud are those who tell lies that people want to believe. Jason Zweig: There are three ways to make a living: 1) Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich. 2) Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living. 3) Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke. * https://jasonzweig.com/three-ways-to-get-paid/
Comment linking /three-ways-to-get-paid/
on “Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon”Submitted Three Ways to Get Paid as a story · 61 points
HN discussion> It reminds me of something my grandfather would say “You can tell people a lot of things… you just can’t tell them the truth!” There are three ways to make a living: 1) Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich. 2) Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living. 3) Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke. * https://jasonzweig.com/three-ways-to-get-p…
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on “Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)”Submitted Today is Charlie Munger's 99th birthday as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIn July 2009, journalist Matt Taibbi invoked an indelible image when he described Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” https://jasonzweig.com/wall-street-and-the-vampire-squid-a-b...
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on “Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? (2018)”Submitted Overconfidence: An Autobiography as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAmazing. Active vs passive confuses so many folks. Great three part series on that topic and others: https://jasonzweig.com/on-writing-better-part-1/
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on “Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app”Submitted A Letter to My Unborn Grandchildren as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIndeed, here is Charlie Munger w/ Jason Zweig: On firms like Berkshire partner 3G Capital, which takes big companies and streamlines them: I’m sensitive to the issue of cutting costs, which usually means a lot of people losing jobs. Rich people end up getting richer and a lot of people get fired. But ultimately, I think we don’t do the world a favor by employing more people than we need for companies to run efficien…
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on “Berkshire Hathaway Code of Business Conduct and Ethics [pdf]”Submitted Financial Advice I Ever Got (Or Gave) (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> There are three ways to make a living: > 1) Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich. > 2) Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living. > 3) Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke. That's depressing. [0] https://jasonzweig.com/three-ways-to-get-paid/
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on “Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left”Submitted On Writing Better: Becoming a Writer – Jason Zweig (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> It's incumbent on these organizations, which want to be seen as purveyors of truth, to make sure their readers end up with the proper understanding. It's incumbent that readers/viewers actually want to properly understand the world: Fox News broadcasts the stuff that it does because people want to it, and their ratings / market share is evidence of it. * https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20…
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on “(Social) media manipulation in one image”Submitted A Compliation: On Charlie Munger as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> It’s very cable-news-brained to believe there must be sides at all. Report facts and let the readers form their own opinions. "Feelings don't care about your facts." — not Ben Shapiro Who won the 2020 US presidential election? If viewers think it was A and you report that it was B, will they believe you? Will they continue to watch/read you? If not, what does that do to your revenue and ability to pay your bills?…
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on “From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media”Submitted Saving Investors from Themselves as a story · 1 points
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