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Nick Winter
Personal blog · blog.nickwinter.netstartupsproductivity
Nick Winter's personal blog at blog.nickwinter.net covers startups and productivity. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The 120-Hour Workweek (2013)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Nick Winter's posts on extreme work hours and productivity, including a 120-hour coding week. HN commenters cite them in discussions of how long programmers can really work. No commenter judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The website of Nick Winter, founder of CodeCombat and Skritter and author of The Motivation Hacker. Writings about startups, learning, hacking, and parenting.
Most-linked posts?
- The 120-Hour Workweek (2013)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-30
- The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-19
What Hacker News says?
Streaming aside, tyler1 has an almost inhuman dedication and focus when it comes to League of Legends. On Hacker News it's common to hear that programmers can't work (on classic programming tasks) for more than ~4 hours a day. I also feel exhausted after working for ~4 hours and have always wondered if this was some sort of mental trap I'd fallen into or a genuine limit. Games like League of Legends require complete…
Comment linking /posts/the-120-hour-workweek-epic-coding-time-lapse
on “Up all night with a Twitch millionaire”Submitted CodeCombat in Y Combinator as a story · 224 points
HN discussionMeanwhile, this guy worked 120 real productive hours (albeit just for one week) and he has a video to prove it: http://blog.nickwinter.net/the-120-hour-workweek-epic-coding...
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on “The 80-hour Myth”Submitted The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extensive vs. Intensive Learning as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unnecessary Things as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 120-Hour Workweek (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 120-Hour Workweek – Epic Coding Time-Lapse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 120-Hour Workweek – Epic Coding Time-Lapse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Code Combat (YC W14) switched their blog to Sett as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Telepath Logger Now Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demo Day Done as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tetris Effect and Markov Paul Graham as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cold showers, tested as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upcoming Maniac Week as a story · 1 points
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