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Paul Taylor
Personal blog · paulitaylor.comproductivitycareerculture
Paul Taylor's personal blog at paulitaylor.com covers productivity, career and culture. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Case Against Collaboration (2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on what work looks like. One commenter found its ideas intuitive but could not trace the claimed research, following a chain of blog and magazine citations without experiments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Innovation - Productivity - Creativity
Most-linked posts?
- The Case Against Collaboration (2022)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-10-25
What Hacker News says?
These ideas are intuitive, but I can't find the research backing them. The blog quotes another blog [1] which claims research but doesn't reference it. That one uses a quote from an MIT article [2], which is a perspective piece with no actual experiments. People use "research says" to add gravity to ideas, but it's important to share (and check) the sources. [1] https://paulitaylor.com/2022/05/06/the-case-against-co…
Comment linking /2022/05/06/the-case-against-collaboration/
on “What “work” looks like”Submitted Why do so many people want us back in the office? as a story · 458 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case Against Collaboration (2022) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fix the System Problem, Not the People Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case Against Collaboration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case Against Collaboration as a story · 1 points
HN discussion