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Quinn Norton
Personal blog · quinnnorton.com/saidculturewriting
Quinn Norton's personal blog at quinnnorton.com covers culture and writing. Since 2009, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Quinn Norton's posts cover grief, the death of Aaron Swartz, and body-hacking devices such as the NorthPaw vibration kit. HN commenters link them for those topics, including a series on NorthPaw.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
website of Quinn Norton
Most-linked posts?
- My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-01-12
- /said/?tag=northpaw2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-29
What Hacker News says?
Agreed. But do want to say being a HN community its good to observe/"hack" his life and learn from this. As one big question arises: Was his death to make a statement, give up, or escape this life. Food for thought: Reddit life: "I was miserable. I couldn't stand San Francisco. I couldn't stand office life. I couldn't stand Wired. I took a long Christmas vacation. I got sick. I thought of suicide. I ran from the pol…
Comment linking /said/?p=644
on “Aaron Swartz commits suicide”Submitted My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved as a story · 419 points
HN discussionEMRo, I'm so so sorry about your loss and your family's loss. Thank you for writing about it. Please take care of yourself as well—and let others take care of you. Grief lasts a lifetime, but it won't always hurt as acutely as it does now. Along the way, you might find some of this helpful; I know I do. http://quinnnorton.com/revived/tips.html
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on “Tell HN: My Brother Died Last Week. His Death Will Not Be In Vain”Submitted Parenting in the age of Paranoia: A Small Manifesto as a story · 89 points
HN discussion>I'm sure Aaron was aware of that his suicide would bring a lot of attention to his causes and this will have played a part in his, as I consider it, decision. I'm not sure: http://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?p=644 >We used to have a fight about how much the internet would grieve if he died. I was right.
Comment linking /said/?p=644
on “The End of Ragequitting”Submitted An Open Reply to Zooko and Jon as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMaybe a vibration motor, like the North Paw kit. https://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/ https://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?p=107
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on “Arduino programmable air, pneumatics kit”Submitted How to Criticize Women in Technology as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou do get a different "qualia". The "northpaw" has been around for a few years, it's a set of pager-buzzers that always buzz on the north side of your leg. http://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/ Users say they stop feeling the vibrations pretty quickly and they just "know" which way is north. http://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?tag=northpaw
Comment linking /said/?tag=northpaw
on “Am I a cyborg now?”Submitted The iPad doesn't matter as much as you think it does as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?tag=northpaw Quinn Norton had a good series on it. There's also a longer talk by her about body hacking in general online. http://youtu.be/voA7Uz7uABE It's an interesting frontier, but I don't have any good resource that has continual updates on it. Any recommendations? The only other place I've really seen stuff about it is BME Zine, but it's focused on BME in general, so there's a…
Comment linking /said/?tag=northpaw
on “Am I a cyborg now?”Submitted Goodbye, my love as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aaronlulz as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 50 Years of Cyborgs: I Have Not the Words as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Biology, or the Drugs Win the Drug War (2010) as a story · 1 points
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