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Oliver Emberton
Personal blog · oliveremberton.com · on HN as oliverembertonstartupscareerphilosophy
Oliver Emberton's personal blog at oliveremberton.com covers startups, career and philosophy. Since 2012, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “How to debug your brain”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Oliver Emberton's posts on social skills, productivity, dating and life strategy. Commenters point to them as practical advice and a useful framing of life as a game.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on AI, life, and building things that matter. By Oliver Emberton, founder-CEO of Silktide.
Most-linked posts?
- How to debug your brain3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-10-14
- Life is a game, this is your strategy guide3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-02-05
- The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-11-24
- Life is a game. This is your strategy guide2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-29
- To achieve your dreams, say no to alternatives2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-28
- If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-05
What Hacker News says?
I read some "pick up artist" literature in college: about two thirds of it is misogynistic garbage, but the remainder has some good tips on general platonic social interaction (and a major issue with insecure men is learning to interact with women in a casual platonic way without acting odd and creepy because they are hoping for more). - If you aren't good at speaking in a captivating way, literally write out your b…
Comment linking /2014/how-to-connect-deeply-with-anyone-in-5-minutes/
on “Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)”Submitted Life is a game, this is your strategy guide as a story · 359 points
HN discussionhttp://oliveremberton.com/2013/you-can-do-anything-if-you-st... One need to read this. Helped me a lot during my 6th semester and I scored an almost perfect gpa that semester. The author is one of the Top Writer on Quora and writes on productivity.
Comment linking /2013/you-can-do-anything-if-you-stop-trying-to-do-everything/
on “Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma”Submitted You should be amazed as a story · 36 points
HN discussionInstead of trivia I would recommend you this link and specially the author's uncommon formula for dating success: http://oliveremberton.com/2014/weve-all-been-raised-by-evil-...
Comment linking /2014/weve-all-been-raised-by-evil-love-stories/
on “Ask HN: Where did you meet your significant other?”Submitted I’m writing a novel, because the Internet told me to as a story · 27 points
HN discussionHere is a link not hidden behind an ad-wall http://oliveremberton.com/2014/the-problem-isnt-that-life-is...
Comment linking /2014/the-problem-isnt-that-life-is-unfair-its-your-broken-idea-of-fairness/
on “The problem isn't that life is unfair, it's that you don't know the rules (2015)”Submitted To achieve your dreams, say no to alternatives as a story · 16 points
HN discussionhttps://www.oliveremberton.com Vibe coded in 3.5 hrs (content was older, natch), wrote a block-based, WYSIWYG block based CMS from scratch to power it.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted If you want to follow your dreams, you have to say no to all the alternatives as a story · 10 points
HN discussionDidn't seem to me at all like "self grandeur", more like "here are some funny examples based on my background". The overall game metaphor is quite nice and useful, also in relation to what the author writes about "fairness" [1]. [1]: https://oliveremberton.com/2014/the-problem-isnt-that-life-i...
Comment linking /2014/the-problem-isnt-that-life-is-unfair-its-your-broken-idea-of-fairness/
on “Life is a game, this is your strategy guide (2014)”Submitted How to debug your brain as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWhat's up with freaking programmers of all the people in the world thinking they're in a position to give far-reaching life like this? Of course my perception is biased because this profession is overrepresented here but these kinds of posts keep popping up from time to time and reading advice on how to live your life from someone who spends all their time in front of a computer screen is so cringe. Even the wikiped…
Comment linking /2013/how-do-i-figure-out-what-to-do-in-life/
on “Life is a game, this is your strategy guide (2014)”Submitted Life is a game. This is your strategy guide as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to succeed when you have no special skills as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to succeed when you have no special skills as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to debug your brain as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you're not pissing people off, you probably aren't doing anything important as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life is a game, this is your strategy guide (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to connect deeply with anyone (in 5 minutes) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life is a game. This is your strategy guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life is a maze, not a marathon as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Guide to Becoming an Entrepreneur as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life is a game. This is your strategy guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to find your passion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to become an entrepreneur (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Baited the UK Government to Sue Me for Fun and Profit as a story · 2 points
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