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Keavy McMinn

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Keavy McMinn's personal blog at keavy.com covers career and programming. Since 2019, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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11mentions?
10HN people?
2019–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Keavy McMinn's post on thriving in technical leadership as an individual contributor who digs into complex technical and product problems. One commenter cites it on whether top IC roles need extrovert skills.

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.

Personal thoughts on technology, development, and life

Most-linked posts?

  1. Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
    5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-10-21
  2. Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. Depends on how you classify "smartest" and "best". At some point, the top-tier IC positions are going to require the type of skills that are commonly associated with extroverts. https://keavy.com/work/thriving-on-the-technical-leadership-... >I’ve chosen to cultivate a path for myself that enables me to dig into complex technical and product problem spaces and help lead technical and strategic direction for my organ…

    Comment linking /work/thriving-on-the-technical-leadership-path/

    on “People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige”
  2. Submitted Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path as a story · 315 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path as a story · 4 points

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  4. Submitted Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path (2019) as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted The Second Brain: The Art of the Strategic Technical Advisor as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Where to Start as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Building Bridges as a Technical IC as a story · 1 points

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