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Paul Kedrosky

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Paul Kedrosky's personal blog at paul.kedrosky.com covers economics and business. Since 2007, 97 different Hacker News readers have linked it 358 times, most often “Google's Results in Five Bullets: Higher Margins and 13% Growth”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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358mentions?
4recommend?
97HN people?
2007–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 140 in 2010

Rarely recommended · 4 of 32 sampled comments recommend it?

Why HN links it

HN readers link his posts as sources on economics, finance, energy and tech-company strategy, and recommend the blog for insight and analysis.

Recommended for · 4 comments
One commenter calls its analysis good and says read more; another lists it as a favourite for economics.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 32 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Google's Results in Five Bullets: Higher Margins and 13% Growth
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2008-03-06
  2. Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyword tail
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-12-13
  3. Jim Simons MIT Talk: Is HFT Socially Useful?
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-01-27
  4. Re-litigating the Simon/Ehrlich Bet
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-19
  5. Curation is the New Search is the New Curation
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-12
  6. Paul Kedrosky: Shut Up About the Age Thing
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-06-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. It's called the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, a name coined by Michael Crichton: http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/07/the-gell-mann-amne...

    Comment linking /archives/2011/07/the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect.html

    on “The NICAM Codec replacement project”
  2. Submitted The Happiness-Suicide Paradox as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  3. jnazario · 2012-07-15Recommends
    good links. i would suggest brad delong's blog, too: http://delong.typepad.com/ and paul kedrosky's infectious greed: http://paul.kedrosky.com/ i wish this blog was more updated, the book was very fun to read: http://nudges.org/ a bigger note, though, is that to be stimulated we need to go beyond our comfort zones, both in terms of intellectual or academic comfort ("i'll never understand this stuff") or opinions and…

    Comment linking /

    on “What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of?”
  4. Submitted Facebook Derivatives: Wall Street Goes Rogue-er as a story · 71 points

    HN discussion
  5. To summarize in English: Stewart started an unnamed firm, and tried to exit mid-bubble four years later; his partners didn't want to buy his equity, so he sued them. By the time he got his shares bought three years later the firm had imploded. http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/05/12/the_myth_of_the...

    Comment linking /archives/2006/05/12/the_myth_of_the_5.html

    on “The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell”
  6. Submitted The Trouble with Nathan Myhrvold’s Pro-Patent Arguments as a story · 64 points

    HN discussion
  7. You REALLY don't get it and strain to misconstrue and misunderstand. "That's... a terrible piece of rhetoric... :(" Huh? You wrote: "I don't see how I can explain that what you are saying appears to be founded in stereotype and a lack of understanding." No: The crucial point is that I have and am presenting a lot of "understanding". Neglecting what I'm saying will bring large risks in dealing with human females, esp…

    Comment linking /archives/2011/01/james_simons_sp.html

    on “My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer”
  8. Submitted The Top Ten Signs the Valley is on Tilt Again as a story · 58 points

    HN discussion
  9. For a more detailed analysis, see Re-litigating the Simon/Ehrlich Bet: http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/02/re-litigating_t.ht...

    Comment linking /archives/2010/02/re-litigating_t.html

    on “Lisp inventor John McCarthy on human progress and its sustainability”
  10. Submitted The Young Entrepreneur Myth as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  11. Here are some charts. I don't know how to make links in a comment. http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/07/tax-burdens-around...

    Comment linking /archives/2011/07/tax-burdens-around-the-world.html

    on “The world economy is heading towards a black hole unless bold action taken”
  12. Submitted Curation is the New Search is the New Curation as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  13. Raising taxes does work since the tax level in this country is quite low. It has a long way to go to catch up to France, Germany, etc. If raising taxes to the level of Germany would cause such a massive outflow of capital (which could be taxed at the exit point) then why does Germany have so much capital? Wouldn't the same thing happen to Germany? The current tax burden as a percent of GDP in the U.S. is low by U.S.…

    Comment linking /archives/2011/07/tax-burdens-around-the-world.html

    on “The world economy is heading towards a black hole unless bold action taken”
  14. Submitted Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyword tail as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  15. To summarize in English: Stewart started an unnamed firm, and tried to exit mid-bubble four years later; his partners didn't want to buy his equity, so he sued them. By the time he got his shares bought three years later the firm had imploded. http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/05/12/the_myth_of_the... Here's a previous discussion with comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581487

    Comment linking /archives/2006/05/12/the_myth_of_the_5.html

    on “The Management Myth (2006)”
  16. Submitted Startup Financing: The Coming Super-Seed Crash as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  17. Collapsed investment bank Bear Stearns' required reading list for interns: http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/09/09/bears_stearns_r...

    Comment linking /archives/2007/09/09/bears_stearns_r.html

    on “Ask HN: Good resources for learning+getting into Finance / Trading?”
  18. Submitted Meet the Average American Family (Infographic) as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  19. "Early this morning Goldman made an awfully timely call, putting out an analyst note at 3:56am PST suggesting that Microsoft should buy Yahoo -- only to freeze analyst coverage of Microsoft at 6:55 AM PST on the news that Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo and it is providing i-banking support" http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/02/01/yahoomicrosoft.... Now that's a coincidence...

    Comment linking /archives/2008/02/01/yahoomicrosoft.html

    on “Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo”
  20. Submitted Everything I Know About Tennis I Learned from Cow Paths as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  21. @broadstuff.com: I'll check back and delete this comment once the site is restored For those trying to get to the page here it is from Bing's cache (Google ironically hasn't cached it yet)... The lead up to the Christmas and New Year holidays required researching a number of consumer goods to buy, which of course meant using Google to search for them and ratings reviews thereof. But this year it really hit home just…

    Comment linking /archives/2009/12/dishwashers_dem.html

    on “On the increasing uselessness of Google”
  22. Submitted Robert Allen: Why the Industrial Revolution Was in Britain as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  23. There is a lot of parroting of talking points to unpack here. First, you assume that drawing down our nuclear program is a priori bad. This is clearly not so. Consider that the greatest threat of terrorists gaining access to nuclear weapons comes from so-called looses nukes in ex-Soviet states. If eliminating some of our weapons will induce them to do the same, this would seem to lessen the chance that apocalyptic w…

    Comment linking /archives/2009/04/richard_koo_on.html

    on “How Obama used behavioral economics to win the election, and how he's using it to govern”
  24. Submitted David Foster Wallace. Dead at 46. as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  25. The cost of 1 gallon of water is something like 1/100th of a cent in most areas. If you want people to conserve water increase its cost, anything else and it will just be "wasted" somewhere else. http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/04/semiconductors.htm... Note: $27 per acre-foot = 0.008 cents per gallon.

    Comment linking /archives/2007/04/semiconductors.html

    on “The Starbucks Cup Dilemma - Corporate Social Responsibility”
  26. Submitted "Don't work too hard, or you'll screw up the economy"? as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  27. You gave a good explanation of a major point I omitted, the common situation of Main Street businesses having a strong geographical barrier to entry . And your point about "winner take all" on the Internet is simple but basically correct. Okay, but still: Joe has an idea , maybe Facebook for cat owners , optimized for mobile with a special alarm when GPS says they are near a cat owner of the opposite sex, a pivot fr…

    Comment linking /archives/2011/01/james_simons_sp.html

    on “Mark Suster Is Wrong, You Should Be A Startup Entrepreneur”
  28. Submitted TED Talks: Living with Data as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  29. To summarize in English: Stewart started an unnamed firm, and tried to exit mid-bubble four years later; his partners didn't want to buy his equity, so he sued them. By the time he got his shares bought three years later the firm had imploded. http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/05/12/the_myth_of_the... Here's a previous discussion with comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581487

    Comment linking /archives/2006/05/12/the_myth_of_the_5.html

    on “The Management Myth: Want to succeed in business? Study philosophy”
  30. Submitted Age and the Entrepreneur as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion

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