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Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus
Personal blog · theminimalists.comproductivityculture
Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus writes The Minimalists, a personal blog at theminimalists.com about productivity and culture. Since 2012, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “How to Sleep Sitting Up”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link theminimalists.com as a reference on minimalism, decluttering, consumption and relationships formed by proximity. One commenter points a reader to its archives as an introduction to the minimalism trend.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Emmy-nominated Netflix stars, podcasters, and New York Times–bestselling authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus help millions of people live meaningfully with less.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Sleep Sitting Up2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-17
- How to sleep sitting up2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-25
- The Minimalists2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-28
What Hacker News says?
To (mis) quote TheMinimalists [1] they frequently mention that most relationships are born out of proximity and/or convenience. Facebook, with (many times) meaningless word exchange (I can't call these discussions) trick us into thinking them as friendships. This is the convenience part, combined with Facebook nomenclature ("Friends") also helps to that direction. I quit FB approx 2 years ago and Instagram 1 year ag…
Comment linking /values/
on “I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier”Submitted Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done as a story · 355 points
HN discussionI think there's a bias against (corporate) lawyers here. The ones I know would definitely do something very close to their day job. Also, it makes it seem like there's an endless supply of waiter jobs lined up for the the taking. But this has been debated at length on HN https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/find-you... and https://www.theminimalists.com/cal/
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on “What happens when your career becomes your whole identity”Submitted How to Sleep Sitting Up as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTrust me when I say that this is all fear. Multiple times I have uprooted family despite all discomfort, odds, safety nets, etc. to pursue a passion. First it was moving out of state to attend graduate school. Second, it was leaving a 6 figure career to pursue my dream. Downsizing was necessary. I had to question my values about money, things, accumulation, happiness. NEVER sell yourself short. If you are passionate…
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on “Learning to code at 56”Submitted Starting an honest conversation about advertisements as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhile I was reading this, I thought "hey they are trying out Minimalism"!!! [1]. [1]: https://www.theminimalists.com/ I believe many people in this forum fall under the: got plenty of money, spending plenty of money, started medidating to improve life and work performance, found value in decluttering. I don't know how wide-spread this phenomenon is in Korea, or the integrity of the journalist/article, but even if 20…
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on “South Koreans lock themselves up to escape prison of daily life”Submitted Becoming Who We Need to Be as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou might be interested in this 10 year old (well, ancient, but rebranded for millennials) trend called "minimalism": https://www.becomingminimalist.com/what-is-minimalism/ https://www.theminimalists.com/archives/ And relevant vloggers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrf_dMnatW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVcwvCL2C2c https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCZ40QwZtFs_7h5MZ0ZTTwg and so on...
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on “There Is Too Much Stuff”Submitted Killing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Ever Done (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI am all for tidying up. One should not forget though, that there are many reasons for why things end up the way they do (as in, cluttered and untidy). I don't think that it 'just happens' that your house fills itself with things that you never will use. Sure, we can blame consumer culture and capitalistic indoctrination. But if we're honest, most of the stuff that we buy is because we hope that it will change us as…
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on “The Art of Tidying Up”Submitted How to Sleep Sitting Up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can still live minimally with a kid (obviously with school and such travel is harder, but homeschool/unschool is always an option). There are many tiny home documentaries out there with people who have kids. Because I don't have Netflix convenient, here's something I think might be relevant: http://www.theminimalists.com/familylinks/
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on “They Could Buy, but Why? Meet the High-Renters”Submitted How to sleep sitting up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimalism - Every dollar we spend on stuff is a dollar we have to work for as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Minimalists as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sleeping sitting up better? as a story · 1 points
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