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Macias’s Newsletter

Personal blog · artofgig.substack.comcareerbusiness

Macias’s Newsletter is a personal blog at artofgig.substack.com about career and business. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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2019–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as a newsletter on consulting spend, arguing that many clients want a therapy or life-coaching element from consultants, and that tech companies are a smaller share of the market.

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.

Welcome. Launched 5 years ago.

What Hacker News says?

  1. fl0under · 2019-10-05Recommends
    I have no direct observations on this topic myself but I remember receiving a newsletter a while ago that may be of interest [0]. The author says that about half of general market is for clients that "Whether or not they choose to explicitly acknowledge it, they look for an element of therapy or life coaching in their relationships with consultants they hire." but tech companies are a smaller proportion of the marke…

    Comment linking /p/elements-of-consulting-style

    on “Ask HN: Which types of consulting do companies spend the most on?”
  2. Submitted Sparring as Tenure for Indie Consultants as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Leverage Curves vs. Career Paths as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Wrapping Up as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Posture Flow as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Model Questions vs. Actor Questions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Your Passion Mission as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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