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Matthew Dicks
Personal blog · matthewdicks.comwritingculture
Matthew Dicks's personal blog at matthewdicks.com covers writing and culture. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Matthew Dicks's blog for storytelling advice and his 'Homework for Life' exercise of writing about a story-worthy moment each day, along with pieces on film theories and media link bait.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Others have noticed this too— some examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/1qmtoi/sid_fro... https://matthewdicks.com/film/2018-5-23-sid-from-toy-story-w...
Comment linking /film/2018-5-23-sid-from-toy-story-was-a-completely-normal-person/
on “A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python”Submitted I Leveled Up as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMatthew Dicks is a great story teller with some good tips: http://www.matthewdicks.com/new-page-5/ https://themoth.org/storytellers/matthew-dicks
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on “Good Storytellers Are Happier in Life and in Love”This reminds me a lot of homework for life. You write a few sentences everyday on the most story worthy moment from that day. https://matthewdicks.com/homework-for-life/
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on “I Started Journaling (2019)”It is link bait, and it's not the first time Slate has done this. Take this as an example: "Is There Any Truth to the Claim That Einstein Was a Fraud?" To summarize the article: "no." Here's an entire article on Slate's link bait tendencies: http://matthewdicks.com/2013/11/benedikt-ridiculous-offensiv... As for Swift, which Slate compares to Clojure, OCaml, and Scala, one difference is that exactly _none_ of those l…
Comment linking /2013/11/benedikt-ridiculous-offensive.html
on “Not so swift”