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Mike Bergman
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Mike Bergman writes AI3:::Adaptive Information, a personal blog at mkbergman.com about ai, data and programming. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Why Clojure?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-26, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Mike Bergman's essay "Of Flagpoles and Fishes" on marketing, which argues for visible accomplishments over cold outreach, in threads about winning clients and partner programs.
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.
Mike Bergman's articles on the semantic technologies, adaptive information, knowledge graphs, and artificial intelligence
Most-linked posts?
- Why Clojure?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-11
What Hacker News says?
I see what you're saying as that thought occurred to me haha. Only thing that kept me from saying what you did is that it sounds very similar to model-driven development. Plus, I bumped into it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_development_p... Followed by this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design There was a company that I had bookmarked that did enterprise software by defining ont…
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on “Knowledge-Sharing Architects as an Alternative to Coding Architects”Submitted Untapped asset : The $3 Trillion value of US Enterprise documents as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSee http://www.mkbergman.com/969/of-flagpoles-and-fishes/ That said, there is something to say for making "warm calls".
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on “Ask HN: How do you get clients?”Submitted A decade in the trenches of the Semantic Web as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMy experience with any kind of marketing (ex. putting up posters to promote a concert, calling B2B prospects, etc.) is that it is a lot more work than many people think. Having realistic expectations and applying elbow grease can go a long way. For the area I am in, I find myself agreeing with this guy more and more http://www.mkbergman.com/969/of-flagpoles-and-fishes/
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on “Ask HN: Problem finding places to engage with your TG?”Submitted Why Clojure? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat's a big question. There are two marketing strategies I find useful for it services. (1) Flagpole marketing, defined by consultant M.K. Bergman http://www.mkbergman.com/969/of-flagpoles-and-fishes/ The idea here is to create visible accomplishments that distinguish yourself from others. This could be a web site or something open source or it could be, "I did X for Company Y and it increased their revenue by Z".…
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on “Ask HN: Amazon AWS / Microsoft / Oracle / $company Partner programs worth it?”Submitted I interpret CS Peirce, another rung on the ladder of knowledge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten Management Reasons for Choosing Clojure for Adaptive Knowledge Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Clojure: Choosing Clojure from a Management Perspective as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exposing $4.7 Trillion Annually in Undervalued Information as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing the First Production Grade UMBEL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Maturation of schema.org as a story · 1 points
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