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Making Data Mistakes
Personal blog · makingdatamistakes.comprogrammingaicareer
Making Data Mistakes is a personal blog at makingdatamistakes.com about programming, ai and career. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-30, 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 posts on data work and team practice, including a guide to running an idea stampede for group brainstorming. The one comment cites that post for its own point about silent idea generation.
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.
Hard-won lessons for AI, management and software engineering
What Hacker News says?
The evidence suggests that brainstorming doesn't work so well - the loudest and earliest views tend to dominate. Instead, the recommendation seems to be to allow people to generate ideas in silence first. This is my approach, which has worked very effectively in groups of up to a dozen remotely for a variety of questions: https://www.makingdatamistakes.com/how-to-run-an-idea-stampe...
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on “Tips for Individual and Group Brainstorming”Submitted A Practical Guide to AI-assisted programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to make your data science team faster (and speed up progress) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion