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Manas J. Saloi
Personal blog · manassaloi.comcareerproductivity
Manas J. Saloi's personal blog at manassaloi.com covers career and productivity. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on a black plastic study error, to argue that scientific studies miss long-tail risks and to favour Lindy-style reasoning about food and environment over deference to science.
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.
Hi, I am Manas J Saloi. As an engineer turned product manager and now head of product, I’ve built products used by millions of people across South East Asia. I am based out of Bengaluru.
What Hacker News says?
>> Unknown unknowns emerge at the tails of novel changes introduced to complex systems. Scientific studies are unable to account for these long-tail events. When it comes to your environment and your body, be more Lindy, and stop deferring to the myopicity of Scientism to guide you. >>> Eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years. > I was with you until the quote a…
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