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Life-Long Learner

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Life-Long Learner is a personal blog at life-longlearner.com about business, startups and career. Since 2011, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “How to Cold Email Prospects”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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68mentions?
16HN people?
2011–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 31 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Life-Long Learner for articles on cold emailing and business development, plus podcast interviews with business people such as Noah Lehmann and Mark Divine.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to Cold Email Prospects
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-09-27
  2. The Art of Asking Someone to Meet For Coffee
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. eterpstra · 2013-01-03Recommends
    This just seems like an ad for the bContext app. There's a link to an article about cold-emailing prospects that had a lot more meat, imo. http://life-longlearner.com/how-to-cold-email-prospects/

    Comment linking /how-to-cold-email-prospects/

    on “One Way to Write A Powerful Cold Email”
  2. Submitted The Fallacy of Money As A Means as a story · 158 points

    HN discussion
  3. conrey · 2014-01-23Recommends
    Yes, best thing to do is research the hell of them before you make any call or email. Some great articles that I've shared with my team: http://www.startupmoon.com/how-i-got-meetings-at-twitter-lin... http://life-longlearner.com/how-to-cold-email-prospects/ http://okdork.com/2013/04/18/cold_email/

    Comment linking /how-to-cold-email-prospects/

    on “Ask HN: Do you cold call?”
  4. Submitted One Way to Write A Powerful Cold Email as a story · 107 points

    HN discussion
  5. I grabbed one at random and thought it was a pretty sleazy thing to do (my opinion only) http://life-longlearner.com/business-development-quick-trick...

    Comment linking /business-development-quick-trick-to-increase-cold-email-responses/

    on “Startup Business Development Posts”
  6. Submitted Startup Business Development Posts as a story · 54 points

    HN discussion
  7. JSeymourATL · 2014-10-02Recommends
    HNer's are probably not the target demographic for MacBook rentals, mostly folks who can either afford to buy or get a loaner in a pinch. As a rental business benchmark--here's a good podcast interview by Scott Britton with Noah Lehmann, who started an exotic car rental operation> http://life-longlearner.com/noah-lehmann-haupt-interview/

    Comment linking /noah-lehmann-haupt-interview/

    on “Could really use your opinion”
  8. Submitted How To Ask For An Email Introduction as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  9. JSeymourATL · 2014-09-26Recommends
    Good refresh on inner-self development and mental toughness, the Mind Gym concept by Mark Divine very solid. Here's a podcast interview> http://life-longlearner.com/mark-divine-interview/

    Comment linking /mark-divine-interview/

    on “Ask HN: What have you learned recently?”
  10. Submitted The Most Important Document You Probably Aren't Keeping as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How to Find Corporate Phone Numbers as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Strategies and Tactics to Close the Deal as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Business Tactics They Don’t Teach in School as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Guerilla Tactics on Finding A Decision Maker as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted How to Ask Someone if They're A Decision Maker as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Is learning addiction holding you back? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted How to Create Holistically Ambitious Goals for 2014 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The Most Undervalued Skill to Become More Persuasive as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Playbook for Marketing A Udemy Course as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted What You Probably Aren't Doing After An Email Introduction as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted The Art of Asking Someone to Meet For Coffee as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Guerilla Tactics: Selling A Skillshare Class as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted An effective outsourcing system you'll actually use (solopreneurs, small teams) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Exposé of Tim Ferriss Mentorship Application as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted A Step by Step Guide to Pre-selling as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted How to Respond When Someone Doesn't Need Your Help as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Adventures in Club Soda Land (Giving Up Drinking) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Your Most Important Muscle for Doing EPIC Sh*t as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Stop Cold Emailing Multiple People at the Same Company as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Creating A Viral Slideshare: What I Learned as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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