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Nick DeWilde
Personal blog · junglegym.substack.comcareerproductivity
Nick DeWilde writes The Jungle Gym, a personal blog at junglegym.substack.com about career and productivity. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Twilight of the Cocktail Party Career”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Career strategy, learning, and work-life integration. Click to read The Jungle Gym, by Nick DeWilde, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Twilight of the Cocktail Party Career2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-09
- If you had your dream job, would you be happy?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-16
- Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 20222 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-05
What Hacker News says?
Personally, I think "intelligence" means different things to different people. Some people are intelligent in their specific domain because they spend a lot of time working in that domain. Others are generalists, they know a little bit about a lot of things. To me, both are intelligent in their own right. This article had a huge impact on me: The T-Shaped Information Diet - https://junglegym.substack.com/p/the-t-sha…
Comment linking /p/the-t-shaped-information-diet
on “Ask HN: How can I improve my intelligence?”Submitted Don’t let HR determine your career ambition as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twilight of the Cocktail Party Career as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Work and Let Work: Three models for managing political conflict at your company as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you had your dream job, would you be happy? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Before you move to San Francisco, read this as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nine Infinite Games to Play with Your Career as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you had your dream job, would you be happy? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 2022 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the new employer of choice is no employer at all as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted This chart will tell you if it's time to leave your job as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Engagement Farming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fail Porn and Cope Culture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 2022 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing, Earning, Working, and Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to write online without getting fired as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Handling the heat – what it takes to run an independent restaurant in 2020 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Frameworks from a growth leader who helped Samsara scale from Series A–Series F as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Giving Employees the “Minimum Viable Good Life” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Team Liquid's Director of Comms shares her journey into the esports industry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cocktail Party Career as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of Platform Brands as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nine Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 2021 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Eastern Philosophy to build stronger communities as a story · 1 points
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