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Juan Reyero
Personal blog · juanreyero.com/articleaiwriting
Juan Reyero's personal blog at juanreyero.com covers ai and writing. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “The wasted talent in the meeting room”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-06, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on cognitive biases, which argues that independent judgments and decorrelated errors apply to running meetings. One commenter quotes its advice to have members write a brief position summary before discussion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Juan Reyero builds systems that let teams of AI agents work with people, and writes Artificial Smarts, a weekly letter on AI, organizations, and knowledge.
Most-linked posts?
- The wasted talent in the meeting room2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-11
What Hacker News says?
http://juanreyero.com/article/technology/meetings.html "The principle of independent judgments (and decorrelated errors) has immediate applications for the conduct of meetings, an activity in which executives in organizations spend a great deal of their working days. A simple rule can help: before an issue is discussed, all members of the committee should be asked to write a very brief summary of their position. Thi…
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on “Cognitive bias cheat sheet”Submitted Learning from my web app 23 visits at a time as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI wholeheartedly agree that it's a good investment to spend time learning your way around the shell. And I've been quite successfully proselytizing it at home: the terminal and the UNIX toolset has been part of my sons' introduction to computing. I actually wrote it down in form of a (free, online) book. It began with my sons in mind, but it soon became a more serious endeavor: http://juanreyero.com/hacker-ways/inde…
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on “OS X Command Line Utilities”Submitted Tinkering: prototype your way out of uncertainty as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Remote / Freelance (Spain/Europe/US) Common Lisp, Python, models, data analysis, image processing. Please check out my resumé and some of my work at http://juanreyero.com/ . Contact writing at joanmg's gmail address.
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)”Submitted Dear Google: this is wrong as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI completely agree. The only beginners I have taught were my sons ---I wrote what I thought were the basics for them in a book, The Hackers Ways [1]--- but P. Guo's articles very much resonate with me as well. Helping them see that the tools were the means to an end, something they could master and that would make them much more efficient, was a big part of the effort. [1] http://juanreyero.com/hacker-ways/index.html
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on “Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery”Submitted Org-mode tricks for team management as a story · 6 points
HN discussionJekyll is great, and it's great to be able to have your writing as nice old text files that you can grep and you'll be able to read 20 years from now. I've been using it for quite a while to blog from org-mode, another great piece of software, and I'm not looking back. If you want to go that way you might be interested in the emacs module I wrote to make it easy, org-jekyll: http://juanreyero.com/open/org-jekyll/
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on “How To: WordPress to Jekyll”Submitted A visual explanation of the Bayes theorem as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCan't resist posting my own visual explanation: http://juanreyero.com/article/math/bayes.html
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on “An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem”Submitted We Need More Programmers, Not Fewer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Remote / Freelance (Spain/US) Common Lisp, Python, models, data analysis, image processing. Please check out my resumé and some of my work at http://juanreyero.com/ . Contact writing at joanmg's gmail address.
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2012)”Submitted Spend Your Compute on Correctness as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote org-jekyll to blog from org-mode, and have been using emacs to produce all my sites ever since: http://juanreyero.com/open/org-jekyll/ The problem I was trying to solve with org-jekyll was separating more or less static content, generated with standard org-publish, from blog posts, generated by org-jekyll and going to the _posts directory (and thus being part of the feed generation, etc). I haven't kept up w…
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on “Blogging With Emacs”Submitted Data cleaning and anonymizing with GPT-3.5 and the function API as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you want to learn how to unicycle, and you speak Spanish, you may be interested in a booklet I wrote about how to learn to unicycle when my kids were learning: https://juanreyero.com/monociclo/ I have used the technique to teach other people, and it works surprisingly well.
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on “Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions”Submitted Don't build your organization around a model provider as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThose of you wanting to learn (or teach) these tools might find useful what I wrote to help my kids learn (sorry for the self-promotion, but I think it's relevant to the topic at hand). I tried to make it learn-by-doing and, most important, to help them figure out how to learn more by themselves. The basic shell is here, http://juanreyero.com/ways-hackers/terminal.html The following two chapters, also online in full…
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on “Conquering the Command Line - Free eBook”Submitted BeadHub: Allow coding agents to claim work, chat, and coordinate across machines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: Cambridge, UK Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Python, Common Lisp, Javascript, technical leadership, systems architecture, several other programming languages, mechanical engineering. Résumé: https://juanreyero.com/res/res.html Email: juan@juanreyero.com Github: https://github.com/juanre and https://github.com/awordai/aword (yes, I have also been doing a RAG implementation along with alm…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)”Submitted Making the computer work for you: screen, python and math as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The way of the editor: a gentle introduction to vi and emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A gentle introduction to the basic Unix tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching web development: the way of the terminal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Change for charity: a project proposal to teach web development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plan for teaching the ways of the hackers to my son as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing with convolutions in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why you should be hacking your work environment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The simplest agent orchestration strategy that works: two agents instead of one as a story · 1 points
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