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Peter Michaud
Personal blog · petermichaud.com/essaysproductivityphilosophy
Peter Michaud's personal blog at petermichaud.com covers productivity and philosophy. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “One customer at a time”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for an essay on writing as an undervalued engineering skill, cited with a link to an earlier HN discussion. The other comments quote a resume joke and a remark about Musk, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- One customer at a time3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-11-27
- Sunk Cost Fallacy2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-01-03
- Brain Hack: Stop Procrastinating with "Push Motivation"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-04
What Hacker News says?
A previous HN discussion on the subject from a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993253 The link has changed: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/the-secret-about-writing-...
Comment linking /essays/the-secret-about-writing-that-no-one-has-the-balls-to-tell-you
on “Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well”Submitted Achievement Porn as a story · 219 points
HN discussionAlthough this particular experience wasn't physical in nature, I wrote an essay recently that argues the opposite: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/your-inner-monster/ But I have to say, in an acutely dangerous situation, the right thing to do is physically defend yourself. Then you can love the person, if they are still alive.
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on “Son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you...”Submitted Writing is Thinking as a story · 91 points
HN discussionOh sorry guys, I wasn't sober enough in my reply. Dear Sir, Your submission that an eye patch would cause the wearer to see in only 2 dimensions is false. I myself wear such an eye patch full time (here is a self portrait for illustration: http://www.petermichaud.com/about/ ). I have not seen from 2 eyes since I was 7 years old, and I am perfectly capable of seeing in 3 dimensions. To prove my claim, I can also perf…
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on “2-D Glasses”Submitted How I retired at age 25 as a story · 82 points
HN discussionShenanigans: http://www.petermichaud.com/about/ I will kick your ass at pingpong. Science, Fuck Yeah!
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on “2-D Glasses”Submitted Brain Hack: turn your Loss Aversion Bias on its head as a story · 44 points
HN discussionThis gem is from the posters resume page: So this guy dies and goes to Heaven, and when he gets to Heaven, he’s trying to explain to God how he spent his life. Wait, wait, God says. Let me get this straight I gave you a body able to swim oceans and climb mountains Yeah, the guys says. and you sat in a cubicle? Right. I gave you creativity, and you made widgets? Yes, the guy says. The one thing I withheld from you, t…
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on “Achievement Porn”Submitted Brain Hack: Stop Procrastinating with "Push Motivation" as a story · 19 points
HN discussionActions tend to follow emotions, not rational decisions. And connecting your long term plans to your present day emotions is nontrivial. This is where Personal Development resources like Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, etc. can be very useful. I know it's not particularly scientific, but I, and several of my friends, have personally found visualization exercises to be extremely helpful in aligning my motivat…
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on “Elon Musk is pushing the human race forward”Submitted Is Your Face Real? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI don't have to work anymore, and it wasn't glorious at all. http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/how-i-retired-at-age-25/ http://techzinglive.com/page/187/techzing-38-pete-michaud-re... http://techzinglive.com/page/496/81-tz-panel-pete-michaud-ro...
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on “Ask HN: Your Non-Glorious Startup Success”Submitted How I Threw Hope Out The Window and Used Data to Build an Empire as a story · 12 points
HN discussionOne of my earlier essays was about the bystander effect: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/the-bomb-and-the-bystande...
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on “Bill Nye collapses during speech at USC”Submitted Interview on Startup Life with millionaire entrepreneur Erica Douglass as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThis is kind of true. If you stick with it people eventually come around. I've been doing it for years. Dig it: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/new-rules-for-christmas/
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on “This Christmas, turn your gifts into charitable giving”Submitted One customer at a time as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYou might be right. Loss aversion is closely related to the sunk cost fallacy. That's why I wrote this last week: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/sunk-cost-fallacy/ And I have a post coming up that ties it together. Look for that next week sometime.
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on “Brain Hack: turn your Loss Aversion Bias on its head”Submitted How to Get Your Wallet Back as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI just wrote an essay that supports what you said: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/dont-reject-your-experien... We HAVE to assume "out there" stuff has some objective underpinning, or we commit the same sin as invoking God, but in mirror image.
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on “Parapsychology: the control group for science”Submitted Doing Truly Important Work: The Life of Aaron Swartz as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis is exactly the answer to the question I posed today: What is the key to success? Show up and do it. http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/what-is-the-key-to-succes...
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on “How I raised $24,000 on Kickstarter (for a text adventure)”Submitted Akrasia, or How to Stop Checking Your E-mail as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI use Goal Mapping: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/stop-planning-right-start... http://www.petermichaud.com/software/goal-mapping-alpha/comm...
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on “ASk HN: Do you set life goals, 3/5 year plans?”Submitted One Customer at a Time as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI wrote this a while back. Writing is Thinking: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/the-secret-about-writing-...
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on “Ask HN: Any good stories you have about writing?”Submitted How to Benefit from Your Flaws as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I turned my painful failure on video into a success as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pete Michaud Message (retired at 25) as a story · 4 points
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