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John Carlton
Personal blog · john-carlton.combusinesswriting
John Carlton writes The RANT, a personal blog at john-carlton.com about business and writing. Since 2007, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in replies to Ask HN questions about weekend productivity and learning entrepreneurship. The comments do not discuss the blog's writing, only the questions they answer.
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John Carlton's blog. Free and damn good insight, advice and cross-talk & mutterings from the most respected and ripped-off marketing guru alive...
What Hacker News says?
Oh man, don't you know that you need to rest and relax for making something productive? Read Tony Schwartz and see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tke6X2eME3c The human body is not a machine, you know... About the thing: "you want to be rich" Man, this is ethereal, an entelechy by itself, you can't motivate yourself with an entelechy. Your subconscious mind needs real, fixed things or goals, you know "not…
Comment linking /2010/06/congratulations-and-now-stop-being-a-wuss/
on “Ask HN: Why do I always waste time on the weekends?”Submitted The Secret To Real Success as a story · 3 points
HN discussionStop reading books, stop getting courses and start doing things. Some people have tendencies to never learn from other people, and they make the same mistakes other people have done again and again. Other people, like you (it is obvious), go the other way, they want to know everything and not fail ever. The way they do it is procrastinating, never getting in the arena or over the stage until they are 100% prepared.…
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on “Ask HN: How do I learn more about entrepreneurship/startups?”Submitted The Envy Cure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Congratulations - now stop being a wuss (a commencement address) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Tell The Friggin' Truth as a story · 1 points
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