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Lincoln Quirk
Personal blog · lincolnquirk.com · on HN as lincolnqaicareer
Lincoln Quirk's personal blog at lincolnquirk.com covers ai and career. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a 2021 post inviting people to email the author for advice. One commenter reported getting a thoughtful reply that said their idea was bad.
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.
What Hacker News says?
I emailed Lincoln for advice, following[1], on a whim. He emailed me back with a thoughtful reply. I appreciated it (he told me my idea is bad, which I appreciate, sting as it does). [1] https://www.lincolnquirk.com/2021/11/18/advice.html
Comment linking /2021/11/18/advice.html
on “Rejection Therapy (2011)”Submitted Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company (2019) as a story · 455 points
HN discussionSubmitted Useful Self-Improvement Interventions (2013) as a story · 92 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rejection Therapy (2011) as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bicycle Recommendations as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking from the End State (2020) as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unlock the Door as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Idea-Tuning skill as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life in the Kitchen as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Product in the Age of AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Toxic Newsfeeds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observations from Kenya as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards an operational definition of tech debt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Value of Time as an Employee as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Process Orientation as a story · 1 points
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