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Mark Atwood
Personal blog · markatwood.substack.compoliticscultureeconomics
Mark Atwood writes Words about Thoughts, a personal blog at markatwood.substack.com about politics, culture and economics. Since 2025, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
I learn interesting things and meet interesting people, and then introduce them to each other.
Most-linked posts?
- Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-18
- The Fifteen-Minute Principal Engineer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-07
- The Seven-Minute Doctor Visit Cannot Understand a Human Body like AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-10
What Hacker News says?
Conclusion: "There is plenty of international talent that can and should be leveraged in the appropriate places and the proper ways. There are many instances where you’re going to want to hire a leading expert in a technical field. But most jobs, the qualifications are a core technical and subject competency combined with diligence and a willingness to learn. [..] We need to encourage a corporate mindset that believ…
Comment linking /p/america-is-an-idea-not-an-economic
on “The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified”Submitted How the Lawyers Killed Practical Adult Education as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Seven-Minute Doctor Visit Cannot Understand a Human Body like AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Safety That Isn't as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Metric System Encodes 18th Century Lab Equipment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knowing Defection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Seven-Minute Visit Cannot Understand a Human Body as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fifteen-Minute Principal Engineer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fifteen-Minute Principal Engineer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alternate Explanation for the Dark Forest as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Enemy You Declared (Consequences of SciAm Endorsing Joe Biden) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Happened to Amazon. How Founders Become Day Two, Take Company with Them as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
