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Jean Hsu
Personal blog · jeanhsu.substack.comcareerculture
Jean Hsu writes Tech and Tea, a personal blog at jeanhsu.substack.com about career and culture. Since 2022, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Ask vs. Guess Culture”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Jean Hsu's posts on asker versus guesser communication culture and on setting personal boundaries before they are crossed. Commenters say the ask/guess posts help multicultural teams.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Navigating the messiness of life with a career in startups. Musings on engineering leadership, teamwork, parenting, partnership, and creative self-expression.
Most-linked posts?
- Ask vs. Guess Culture6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-08-18
What Hacker News says?
See also: https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37176703 (946 points | 19 days ago | 479 comments)
Comment linking /p/ask-vs-guess-culture
on “Are you an Asker or a Guesser? (2010)”Submitted Being-Doing Balance over Work-Life Balance as a story · 155 points
HN discussion"setting a line" really means having solid principles to deal with situations. it doesn't mean you have to be rigid, but it does mean you have to proactively think about what you want and what is acceptable, so you have something to fall back on when situations get complex I think this article is a pretty good complement to ask vs. guess culture https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture in my experience, p…
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on “Set the Line Before It's Crossed”Submitted Finding the Joy in Feeling Tired as a story · 71 points
HN discussionI found a good discussion that I keep referring to on Jean Hsu's blog: https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture and https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/bridging-the-ask-vs-guess-cul... It's been quite illuminating for people in multicultural teams...
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on “'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)”Submitted What if hard work felt easier? as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ask vs. Guess Culture as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everybody's Winging It as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do you want to climb the career ladder? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being a Human Engineer in the AI Era as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ask vs. Guess Culture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ask vs. Guess Culture (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progress Can Be Slow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ask vs. Guess Culture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Space to Do Whatever, at Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hustle Culture Is Over-Rated as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote Work and Sick Days as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Owning Your Unique Experience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter and the Hallway Track as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Than a Semblance of Self as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making it easier to ask for help as a story · 1 points
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