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Jon Kolko
Personal blog · jonkolko.com/writingdesignwriting
Jon Kolko's personal blog at jonkolko.com covers design and writing. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited as a source on scaling social and charitable solutions, and in a discussion of how paperwork and management operations scale in large companies. No comment praises or criticises the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jon Kolko; design strategy, education and writing.
What Hacker News says?
Kolko talks about that in the context of scaling social/charitable solutions.[1] There's a cite to Marshall, who talks about it in an industrial context.[2] But Marshall wrote in the days before computers and the Internet. There was a time when big companies had enormous clerical plants and corporate headquarters operations. Some paperwork and management operations scale O(N log N) or even O(N^2). At some point, cor…
Comment linking /writing/notes/13
on “Socialist ends by market means: A history”Submitted Thoughts on Henry Ford and the UX as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm grateful for the reply :) I respectfully disagree. You have me asking myself why though. I'm thinking about this quote by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "For the simplicity that lies this side of complexity, I would not give a fig, but for the simplicity that lies on the other side of complexity, I would give my life." [1] I'm also thinking about Copernicus and how people were actually modelling pl…
Comment linking /writingSimplicityComplexity.php
on “What is consciousness? Some new perspectives from our physics project”