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Nadia Asparouhova
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Nadia Asparouhova's personal blog at nadiaeghbal.com covers culture and philosophy. Since 2017, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Reimagining the PhD”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Personal writing, links, and other things by Nadia Asparouhova.
Most-linked posts?
- Reimagining the PhD4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-11-16
- The independent researcher4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-06-28
- Advice on Starting a Microgrant Program3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-04-23
- Between animal and God3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-16
- Methodologies for measuring open source project health3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-18
- The Creator Economy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-17
- Making Money with Licenses3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-14
- The Tyranny of Ideas3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-12
- Understanding user support systems in open source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-27
- Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-29
What Hacker News says?
FOSS is the start. Then comes governance, culture, etc. Bryan Cantrill's "Power to Fork" thesis is relevant. http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2010/08/03/opensolaris-and-the-p... Sadly, I lived that experience on another FOSS project. Wish I had heard Cantrill before I committed to that effort. I'm also deeply influenced by Pieter Hintjens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens#Bibliography Ditto Clay Shirky, eg H…
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on “WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted”Submitted The independent researcher as a story · 244 points
HN discussionThis is a true solo developer: http://pketh.org/archives/ It looks like this thread is turning into general blog recommendations. I like these, and they haven't been listed: https://macwright.org/ https://tonsky.me/ https://nadiaeghbal.com/posts/
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted Reimagining the PhD as a story · 211 points
HN discussionThrow in Nadia Eghbal's Tyranny of Ideas ( https://nadiaeghbal.com/ideas ) and you'll realize it's not humans beefing, but ideas. Posting is praxis, and the internet is a series of tube battlegrounds for the best ideas. I'm a multitour veteran of the scarred hellscape where modern and historic ideas struggle - 4chan, TEDx conferences, irc, VC conference rooms, local candidate door-knocking campaigns, reddit, and of…
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on “The Internet of Beefs”Submitted Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019) as a story · 188 points
HN discussionOnce upon a time, researchers were independently wealthy https://nadiaeghbal.com/independent-research
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on “The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal”Submitted Being basic as a virtue as a story · 159 points
HN discussionNadia's website, the portal to her wonderful mind and work: https://nadiaeghbal.com/
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on “Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software”Submitted Methodologies for measuring open source project health as a story · 82 points
HN discussionI got into the program, like a week ago. Still learning the ropes, I'm having a great time with them so far. Their internal slack group is really fun and their team is also quite responsive when it comes to resolving your queries. On a deeper level, I really appreciate the strategic approach they have chosen when it comes to supporting and nurturing the entrepreneurs that they have backed, where the default approach…
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on “Ex-YC partner Daniel Gross rethinks the accelerator”Submitted The Tyranny of Ideas as a story · 75 points
HN discussionI'm considering doing so as well (after having read https://nadiaeghbal.com/microgrants ) with a small personal fund first, that I will consider to open to friends & family later. France context. However I'm wondering about the efficiency, that will start as an experiment first. Not many different targets than yours, but my hunch starts with funding & following up in their development _local_, identified young stude…
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on “Ask HN: Best ways to spend money towards climate efforts”Submitted Understanding user support systems in open source as a story · 48 points
HN discussionNadia left her job in venture capital last May and started work on a thesis. What is not venture backable in tech right now, that tech absolutely cannot do without? Projects that had present, not future, value. Were actively used by Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Netflix, even governments. Directly responsible for tech’s rapid rise, as Mark Suster once explained but they hadn’t captured the financial value they des…
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on “Fighting for Open Source Sustainability: Introducing Code Sponsor”Submitted Advice on Starting a Microgrant Program as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThere is no place quite like Gwern’s. But still, for interesting hypertext, perhaps see: * https://meaningness.com * https://philosopher.life * https://ribbonfarm.com * https://nadiaeghbal.com * https://subpixel.space * https://slatestarcodex.com (adjacent to gwern somehow) I make it my business to dig up sites like these. https://kickscondor.com
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on “Ask HN: More Sites Like Gwern.net?”Submitted Reimagining the PhD as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe actual link to the blog post is: https://nadiaeghbal.com/shameless
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on “Shamelessness as a Strategy”Submitted The Twitch Argument for GitHub Sponsors as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAre you looking to do work or give money? If the former, I recommend having a look at GitHub's open source guide ( https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/ ) and then finding a project to start contributing too. The best is something you already use yourself and is in need in help, otherwise, I made a resource that you can use to find a good project to contribute to: https://www.sourcesort.com . If you're looking…
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on “Ask HN: How Can I Support the Open Source Community”Submitted The Tyranny of Ideas (2019} as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I’ve decided to put Helium Grants on indefinite hiatus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Making Money with Licenses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Money with Licenses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Public Faith as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding user support systems in open source as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The independent researcher as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Creator Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Creator Economy as a story · 2 points
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