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kupajo
Personal blog · kupajo.com · on HN as kolyderwritingphilosophyproductivity
kupajo is a personal blog at kupajo.com about writing, philosophy and productivity. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Rules Clobber Goals”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's post on writing to pool shifting selves, offered as a companion to a thread on writing to escape a default setting. The comment gives no judgment of the writing itself.
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.
Strange how certain arrangements of words sear themselves into your mind. Then they wait. A day or decade later, like a song you catch yourself humming, you realize the words have shaped you.
Most-linked posts?
- Rules Clobber Goals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-25
- Write to Pool Your Shifting Selves2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-28
What Hacker News says?
You couldn't be more correct. I wasn't actively thinking of DFW when I wrote this post, but his stuff is everywhere in my notes. A DFW post I wrote: https://kupajo.com/david-foster-walleye-sic/
Comment linking /david-foster-walleye-sic/
on “Write to Escape Your Default Setting”Submitted Write to Escape Your Default Setting as a story · 407 points
HN discussionWell, same blog has an article about that too it seems : https://kupajo.com/write-to-pool-your-shifting-selves/
Comment linking /write-to-pool-your-shifting-selves/
on “Write to Escape Your Default Setting”Submitted Stamina Is a Quiet Advantage as a story · 227 points
HN discussionSubmitted Excessive Criticism Is a Sign of Internal Conflict (Projecting) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rules Clobber Goals as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Excessive Criticism Is a Sign of Internal Conflict as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forget Who Forgets You as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Increase Your Optionality as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The work is meticulous but rewarding as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rules Clobber Goals as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life Follows Your Attention as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grow Inherently, Not Apparently as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iron Never Lies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shrink Jobs, Not Standards as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing and the End of a Good Thing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be Irrationally Patient (Delayed Gratification) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Walk the Shoreline of Your Ignorance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fire and Advance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write to Improve Your Career as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes from the Top of Hacker News as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be There as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Align Your Actions and Identity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Painfully Correct Cliches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's good to quiver under the bar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obituary for a Small Business as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reduce Your Decision Fatigue as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remember the Cosmic Joke as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted See the Hands That Shaped the Clay of Hardened Beings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Start with the End in Mind as a story · 2 points
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