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Kent Hendricks
Personal blog · kenthendricks.comeconomicsbusiness
Kent Hendricks's personal blog at kenthendricks.com covers economics and business. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “52 Things I Learned in 2022”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post speculating that an ARM-based MacBook SE could undercut Chromebooks and mid-priced Windows laptops. The one comment discusses price skimming and does not judge the 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.
Marketing, Consumer Psychology, and Human Behavior
Most-linked posts?
- 52 Things I Learned in 20222 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-06
- People spend more when prices end in .99 (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-25
What Hacker News says?
BUSINESS concepts behind the scenes: a) What people don't understand about the SE strategy, besides economies of scale and a smaller, more powerful phone, is that the device was made to offer extreme value targeting a demographic using a specific strategy called "Price skimming": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_skimming The iPhone SE was designed to lower consumer's (Android users) barrier to entry (price) into…
Comment linking /center-stage-effect/
on “An ARM-based MacBook SE could destroy Chromebooks and mid-priced Windows laptops”Submitted People spend more when prices end in .99 (2018) as a story · 170 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does expensive wine taste better? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I Learned in 2024 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I Learned in 2023 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I Learned in 2019 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You spend more when prices end in .99 (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 52 Things I Learned in 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I Learned in 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The center stage effect: this is why you choose the product in the middle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The center stage effect: this is why you choose the product in the middle as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
