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Keenen Charles

Personal blog · keenen.xyzculturedesign

Keenen Charles's personal blog at keenen.xyz covers culture and design. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Just Be Rich”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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19mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

The blog post 'I Met Paul Graham Once' is about the author's encounter with Paul Graham. The only comment discusses Paul Graham's essays and business focus, not the post's writing.

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.

Essays about tech, media, art and how they impact us.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Just Be Rich
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. rchaud · 2025-01-20
    Having read many of PG's essays from the 2000s and seeing how he communicates now, I can only reach one conclusion. Like Musk, Zuck and the others who got rich quick decades ago, they are too far removed from any kind of "hacker" ethos today, and see everything from 30,000 ft, almost literally. What kind of self-described hacker spends their days advising incubees on the best way to close "high-touch B2B sales"? The…

    Comment linking /just-be-rich/

    on “I Met Paul Graham Once”
  2. kjcharles · 2021-04-13

    Submitted Just Be Rich as a story · 1875 points

    HN discussion
  3. scarmoo · 2024-07-14

    Submitted Just Be Rich (2021) as a story · 226 points

    HN discussion
  4. kjcharles · 2020-10-22

    Submitted Why Laugh at Quibi's Failure? as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  5. kjcharles · 2024-09-05

    Submitted Dark Mode Sucks as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  6. kjcharles · 2026-09-10

    Submitted Am I Being Gaslit by AI? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. kjcharles · 2019-08-20

    Submitted Tumblr Should Copy Patreon as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. kjcharles · 2020-12-09

    Submitted Marketing Tips for People with No Friends as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. kjcharles · 2019-02-19

    Submitted The Trap of Building More as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. kjcharles · 2019-01-28

    Submitted Building Dynamic Emails with HEML in Node and Express as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. kjcharles · 2019-01-17

    Submitted Google Killing Products Is Okay as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. kjcharles · 2019-01-16

    Submitted Facebook Has Changed as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. kjcharles · 2019-01-07

    Submitted Why Do Online Discussions Tend Toward Negativity? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. kjcharles · 2020-02-18

    Submitted SEO Tips for Directory Sites as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. kjcharles · 2020-01-10

    Submitted 2020 Won't Be the Year of Foldables as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. kjcharles · 2019-08-23

    Submitted Building a Simple Blog in Nuxt.js as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. kjcharles · 2019-01-25

    Submitted The Struggle to Finish a Side Project as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. kjcharles · 2019-01-06

    Submitted Designing a Logo for a Side Project as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. kjcharles · 2019-01-03

    Submitted Designing a Side Project as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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