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Jonathan Becher
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Jonathan Becher writes Manage By Walking Around, a personal blog at jonathanbecher.com about business and productivity. Since 2020, 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 (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link posts by this author on Google's treatment of developers, the origin of the idiom "bring home the bacon", and the 1918 flu pandemic's lessons for responding to COVID-19. No commenter judges the writing itself.
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.
Aligning Execution With Strategy
What Hacker News says?
But this is already about Google and Google already allows third party app stores. (I mean even Epic, which is a pretty well-known, high-profit company couldn't get very many people to download their store for Android.) The solution is to support legislation requiring companies to give specific details of what the problem is rather than allowing them to play these games of "bring me a rock."[0] [0] https://jonathanb…
Comment linking /2020/08/30/the-bring-me-a-rock-phenomenon/
on “Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer”This article places the origin of “bring home the bacon” to an African American boxer’s mother in 1906. He mentions gravy in the response, so I suspect they’re talking about bacon as in meat from the back half of a pig, like a bone-in pork leg rather than the sliced pork belly we envision today. The (figurative) bacon he was encouraged to bring home would be a big piece of meat like a roasted ham. https://jonathanbe…
Comment linking /2020/06/14/bring-home-the-bacon/
on “Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)”The problem, from a non-medical expert layman, is that the "sensible" measures only appear so in hindsight. It would have been sensible to close our borders and halt international travel 8-12 weeks ago, and begin widespread screening of suspect individuals. But at the time everyone said that was nuts, you want to tank our economy over some virus that's barely even outside Wuhan!? Right now we could still contain it…
Comment linking /2016/01/31/lily-pads-and-exponential-thinking/
on “What we can learn from the 1918 flu pandemic”