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Matt Schellhas
Personal blog · matt-schellhas.medium.comcareerculture
Matt Schellhas's personal blog at matt-schellhas.medium.com covers career and culture. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a bare link noting that a post from this blog, 'unnatural-keys', was previously submitted to HN. It does not comment on the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-28
- One Unavoidable Regret of Management2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-06
What Hacker News says?
We just had https://matt-schellhas.medium.com/unnatural-keys-425a68ee350... on HN a couple of weeks ago, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101544
Comment linking /unnatural-keys-425a68ee350c
on “Most tech content is bullshit”Submitted Team doesn't need eleven goalies as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don't Need Permission to Do Your Job as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managers: If you want to promote someone, then do your job as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The King and the Stonemason as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted All Hiring Decisions are a Gamble (and that’s okay) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You will always have more Problems than Engineers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perfect Product Is a Profitable Product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Communication Is Not Collaboration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Battling Management with Competence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How can I triple my salary and work one day a week? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Uninspiring Manager as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asymmetric Workloads: One Way Leaders Can Poison Their Culture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Engineering Tolerances: How to Better Describe Success as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Invisible Geek as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hoarding in Summer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When your customers become a threat to your business as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hamburger Bug as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple and Difficult: Earning Trust in the Workplace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Many Layoff Bears as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can't lead a team with a spreadsheet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good work. Here’s some more as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Unavoidable Regret of Management as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Unavoidable Regret of Management as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Algorithm to Find the Minimum Combination of Remainders as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What do you look for in new programmers? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to have the best Bad Meetings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Frugal Workload Mindset as a story · 1 points
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