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Nabeel S. Qureshi
Personal blog · nabeelqu.co · on HN as nqureshicareerbusinessphilosophy
Nabeel S. Qureshi's personal blog at nabeelqu.co covers career, business and philosophy. Since 2020, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “How to Understand Things”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Nabeel Qureshi's posts on Palantir's forward deployed engineers, on learning methods, and on AI and data silos. The comments cite them as support and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Understand Things7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-07-05
- Advice that worked for me7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-07-04
- Reflections on Palantir4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-10-15
- The Serendipity Machine (Notes on Using Twitter)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-20
- How to Sell3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-13
- Principles – Nabeel S. Qureshi2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-19
- Notes on Puzzles2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-11
What Hacker News says?
Similarly, asymptotic complexity is not always an adequate approximation of energy consumption. More code leads to more cache misses. More code leads to more energy consumed transmitting that data over the internet, and wireless radios are energy-expensive. More code leads to more time parsing, compiling, optimizing, and then JITing code, which can utterly dominate actual runtime energy cost if the program is not lo…
Comment linking /understanding
on “How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?”Submitted How to Understand Things as a story · 816 points
HN discussionImportant snippet that has bearing on the adoption of AI as a whole: > “Disorganized data silos” have been an issue for Copilot, analysts wrote. This is true in almost every large organization, and will affect every enterprise AI product out there. There was a relevant subthread just a couple of days ago recounting this exact, same dynamic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861209 In fact, Palantir's secret sau…
Comment linking /reflections-on-palantir
on “Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems”Submitted Video Games Are the Future of Education as a story · 478 points
HN discussionTotally makes sense. Turns out that a lot of what Palantir's "Forward Deployed Engineers" do is navigating these bureaucratic and political obstacles to get access to the data: https://nabeelqu.co/reflections-on-palantir -- which may be Palantir's real secret sauce, rather than the tech itself.
Comment linking /reflections-on-palantir
on “Why software stocks are getting pummelled”Submitted Advice that worked for me as a story · 205 points
HN discussionIn this context llm's remind me of the anecdote of Agassiz and the fish: "A post-graduate student equipped with honours and diplomas went to Agassiz to receive the final and finishing touches. The great man offered him a small fish and told him to describe it. Post-Graduate Student: “That’s only a sun-fish” Agassiz: “I know that. Write a description of it.” After a few minutes the student returned with the descripti…
Comment linking /understanding
on “Position: LLMs Can't Jump”Submitted Reflections on Palantir as a story · 80 points
HN discussionFairly simple, use my brain as well as the methods listed in https://nabeelqu.co/understanding to understand the material, then use Anki for any details that are useful to remember. There are lots of techniques out there on how to "superlearn" or similar, but really most of the time they have very marginal benefit, and you just need to get on with it.
Comment linking /understanding
on “Ask HN: What is your preferred method of learning new things?”Submitted Advice That Worked for Me as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Serendipity Machine (Notes on Using Twitter) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for Productivity, Thinking, and Doing as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Understand Things as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on Palantir as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on Palantir as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Puzzles as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for Productivity, Thinking, and Doing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Principles – Nabeel S. Qureshi as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advice That Worked for Me as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes Art Great? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A few things I've learned from experience and that I try and keep in mind as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Serendipity Machine (Notes on Using Twitter) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Understand Things as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Other Reading Lists as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Understand Things as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Sell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Serendipity Machine (Notes on Using Twitter) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Sell as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Puzzles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Understand Things as a story · 1 points
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