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Joe Hovde writes Residual Thoughts, a personal blog at residualthoughts.substack.com about business and startups. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The most life-changing books, statistically”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
6HN people?
2024–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2024

A whimsical data newsletter about business & people.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The most life-changing books, statistically
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Alexa, Change Your OKRs as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted An attempt to understand Peter Thiel as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The most life-changing books, statistically as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted What Allbirds Could Have Done Differently as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A Requiem for Bumble as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Is Job Stacking Rational? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Libbing out at Palantir: What political donations say about powerful companies as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The most life-changing books, statistically as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Fall of the Nouveau-Riche University as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Learnings, data, & interesting things that happen when you write 100 newsletters as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Challenges of Quant in Venture Capital as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted A real-life example of social proof for a paid consumer app as a story · 1 points

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