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Luke Thomas
Personal blog · lukethomas.comstartupsbusinesswriting
Luke Thomas's personal blog at lukethomas.com covers startups, business and writing. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “The $100 Dollar Ikea Stand-Up Desk”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Luke Thomas's posts on a DIY IKEA stand-up desk, a DRM and book-kickback piece, and counter-positioning in the new Bing with ChatGPT. The comments only cite or link these posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Luke Thomas — builder, operator, father of four.
Most-linked posts?
- The $100 Dollar Ikea Stand-Up Desk2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-30
- I Started Working Remotely – Track My Progress2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-11
What Hacker News says?
I'm on my third week of working remotely - Here's what I've learned so far: 1. Massive sense of freedom - you own your time, and it's yours to be productive. YesGraph (my employer) is results based, and not hours-based. This is awesome as a remote employee. 2. Exercise isn't Easy - I used to walk over 2 miles/day to work, so I have to force myself to get enough exercise during the course of the day. 3. Tendency to O…
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on “Lessons from 2 months of remote working”Submitted The Textbook Industry & Greed: My Story as a story · 244 points
HN discussion> I've never heard of this happening, and certainly have never been offered a kickback myself to take a book. Well, if you're the type to never have noticed this happening, they surely wouldn't try to contact you. This is very common all around the world, including the US. In fact, it has been written about since time immemorial, even Feynman mentions his experiences: "One book in particular drew his attention. It w…
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on “DRM Broke Its Promise”Submitted Simple Ways to Find Potential Customers Online as a story · 116 points
HN discussionI had a professor who bundled an access code with his "custom-edition" textbook. It forced students to buy new every semester, and he made a healthy cut in the process: http://lukethomas.com/the-textbook-industry-greed-its-gettin...
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on “Textbooks Prices: Out of Control”Submitted How to Land a Job at a Startup (Even if you live in the middle of nowhere) as a story · 52 points
HN discussionI wrote the same thing yesterday. It will be very interesting to see how this battle for video pans out. http://lukethomas.com/vine-is-for-storytelling/
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on “Is Vine Instagram for Video?”Submitted Why do you need a Smartphone? as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI love this presentation. One thing to consider (slide 22) is the first step of the homepage acquisition funnel. I have a feeling that the trial conversion is actually better than depicted. It might be worth checking to see if this "viewed page" event is including people who have already created an account, and are simply visiting the homepage to log-in. I had the same problem with Mixpanel and wrote about it: http:…
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on “Conversion Optimization in Practice: Baconbiz 2013 Presentation”Submitted The Education I wish I Had as a story · 24 points
HN discussionNot what you are asking, but save you some money and get some IKEA DIY stand-up desk. Been using it for about a year. for example, http://lukethomas.com/100-dollar-ikea-stand-up-desk/
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on “Ask HN: Really awesome chair for computer use?”Submitted Tips on finding a Marketer for your Startup as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIt sounds more like Counter-Positioning (details, e.g. [1]) by OpenAI/Microsoft. Google cannot compete or it would attack its own main income stream and risk losing income very fast. But if they wait, then people learn to work with Microsoft/OpenAI which would hurt them in the long run. Counter-Positioning creates an impossible situation which brought many giants down including Blockbuster. [1]: https://www.lukethom…
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on “The New Bing with ChatGPT”Submitted I Started Working Remotely – Track My Progress as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips to Find and Validate Potential Customers as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Marketing Experiments with Purpose as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Growth Hacking is B.S. - Here's the Marketers you should follow instead as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The $100 Dollar Ikea Stand-Up Desk as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A/B testing: a comprehensive guide to getting started as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bootstrapping to $10k/month with a day job as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Website Visitors are People Too as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Growth Team: The most impactful team the Enterprise doesn’t have…..yet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Remote Worker's Onsite as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Increase Sales by Understanding the Funnel (and why trust is so important) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designers & Developers have Style Guides. Marketers should too as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ed-Tech Platforms Need Improvement as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why User Testing Services are Useless as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracking A/B tests in Mixpanel using url parameters (Rails Application) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing an A/B testing solution for your Rails App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimum Viable Marketing as a story · 2 points
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