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Nathan Zeldes
Personal blog · nathanzeldes.com/blogproductivitycareerphilosophy
Nathan Zeldes's personal blog at nathanzeldes.com covers productivity, career and philosophy. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter quotes the post's point that short paragraphs are a wall-of-text problem, then cites their own decades of contract work to back up the advice on white space. The post is about writing and thinking.
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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What Hacker News says?
> short paragraphs stringed together is a wall of text. "White space is your friend" is another rule I preach to my students. Some 40 years of dealing with contracts has persuaded me that short paragraphs with white space in between them are FAR easier to review and negotiate — which means they get signed sooner, and clients vastly prefer that. > as opposed to diagrams, spreadsheets, or conversations For several yea…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Effective-Action-Culture.pdf
on “When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think”Submitted Konrad Zuse and the First Computer Startup (2013) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rosh Gadol: How You Can Manage for Initiative as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alan Turing’s Earthshaking Philosophical Insight as a story · 2 points
HN discussion