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prof serious
Personal blog · profserious.substack.compoliticswriting
prof serious is a personal blog at profserious.substack.com about politics and writing. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Bureaucratic Escalator and how it operates”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts on bureaucracy: one on lessons from government work that apply to any large organisation, and one on the bureaucratic escalator as a pattern in agentic coding.
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... an attempt to engage and inform.
Most-linked posts?
- The Bureaucratic Escalator and how it operates2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-03
What Hacker News says?
This piece is based on learnings from working in a government beauracracy but has lessons for any large organisation. https://profserious.substack.com/p/10-things-i-learnt-in-gov...
Comment linking /p/10-things-i-learnt-in-government
on “Why is everything so hard in a large organization?”Submitted The Bureaucratic Escalator and how it operates as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAn instance of https://profserious.substack.com/p/the-bureaucratic-escalato... ?
Comment linking /p/the-bureaucratic-escalator
on “Why Does Claude.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding”Submitted The 'Mythos Moment' as a story · 1 points
HN discussion