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Parker Tatum

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Parker Tatum writes MapWriting, a personal blog at mapwriting.substack.com about culture, philosophy and productivity. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Bushmen”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.

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14mentions?
4HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2026

My personal Substack.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Bushmen
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-24
  2. Forget the plague, this is the disease that will kill us all
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. same question on substack, and he responded https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentists/comment/361445411

    Comment linking /p/dentists/comment/361445411

    on “Do dentists know what they're doing?”
  2. Submitted Do dentists know what they're doing? as a story · 990 points

    HN discussion
  3. And this was itself written by an LLM…we read so much of this stuff now that I’m worried about is we’re all just going to start writing like this whether we use LLMs or not. https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/living-subscription-free-i...

    Comment linking /p/living-subscription-free-in-my-brain

    on “Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new”
  4. Submitted Forget the plague, this is the disease that will kill us all as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. Already happening. https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/living-subscription-free-i...

    Comment linking /p/living-subscription-free-in-my-brain

    on “Pseudpocalypse”
  6. Submitted Bushmen as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Who chooses the new "it" animal? as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted I can't stop thinking about the Kalahari Bushmen as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted Living subscription-free in my brain as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted The disease that kills us all as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted Try some different diets as a story · 1 points

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  12. Submitted A powerful technique for enjoying the present moment as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted The Context Gravity Well as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Shit for Your Shit as a story · 1 points

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