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Luke Burgis
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Luke Burgis's personal blog at read.lukeburgis.com covers philosophy and culture. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Our Mimetic Culture”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, 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 a short essay, 'The Danger of Ignoring Beauty', which ends by asking what you want to want. It was linked in an Ask HN thread about developing focus.
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.
Pursuing the mysterium tremendum et fascinans and writing at the intersection of philosophy, culture, art, technology, and religious wisdom.
Most-linked posts?
- Our Mimetic Culture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-20
- The Danger of Ignoring Beauty2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-04
- Transcending the Transactional–Part II2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-17
What Hacker News says?
Lots of tactics, and only some strategies in the comments so far. https://read.lukeburgis.com/p/the-danger-of-ignoring-beauty might be a good (short) read (posted earlier today here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30904338 ). It ends with the question: what do you want to want?
Comment linking /p/the-danger-of-ignoring-beauty
on “Ask HN: How do I develop focus?”Submitted Cultural anorexia: The pursuit of thicker desires in a thinning world as a story · 73 points
HN discussionSubmitted Atomic Habits of Desire as a story · 73 points
HN discussionSubmitted Political Atheism, Part I as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Danger of Ignoring Beauty as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Human Worker as Civilizational Nexus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harold Bloom in Silicon Valley as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Bull Market in the Humanities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Positions and Dispositions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Mimesis, Thick Desires, and the Four Layers of Happiness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Philosophy of Zero to One: #1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Desires Are Blowin' in the Wind as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're All Chasing One Another's Goals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Peter Thiel, Irresistible Pariah as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life Lessons from René Girard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Mimetic Culture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Imitation, Innovation, and Heresy in the Digital Public Square as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rites of Passage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Architects of Desire as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chasing Purity: We'll be debating content moderation 50 years from now as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Girard, Race, and Cultural Desire as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Beauty of Freshmanistan as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transcending the Transactional–Part II – By Luke Burgis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transcending the Transactional–Part II as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Love in the Time of Altruism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aesthete Insensibilities as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Craft an Anti-Mimetic Career as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The versus Everyone Verses as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on the Three City Problem, Part 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Erosion of Free Will: Why Society's Loss of Belief in Freedom Is Dangerous as a story · 1 points
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