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Michael Lin
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Michael Lin writes Michael’s Newsletter, a personal blog at michaellin.substack.com about career, productivity and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “I Quit a $450k Engineering Job at Netflix”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-29, 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 Substack post, which covers why the author quit a $450K Netflix engineering job. One commenter notes it is a 2022 repost and says it still holds up as advice.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- I Quit a $450k Engineering Job at Netflix2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-04
What Hacker News says?
This is a repost of https://michaellin.substack.com/p/why-i-quit-a-450k-engineer... , which is (2022) That being said, it is still valid (and valued) advice today, and I recommend reading it!
Comment linking /p/why-i-quit-a-450k-engineering-job
on “I Quit a $450K Engineering Job at Netflix”Submitted I Quit a $450k Engineering Job at Netflix as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Key to Career Success: Don't Work Hard. Get Lucky Instead as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is a Lack of Role Clarity Hurting Your Engineering Team? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on Turning 30 – 3 Profound Life Lessons from My 20s as a story · 1 points
HN discussion