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Ralph Ammer
Personal blog · ralphammer.comphilosophydesign
Ralph Ammer's personal blog at ralphammer.com covers philosophy and design. Since 2019, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Ralph Ammer – Make Me Think”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Ralph Ammer's blog for its guides on drawing and creativity, including a beginner's guide to drawing and posts on getting started and the creative switch.
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.
Welcome to my creative world. Here you’ll find my writings, drawings, animations and more.
Most-linked posts?
- Ralph Ammer – Make Me Think7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-12-31
- A quick beginner’s guide to drawing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-09
- The Creative Switch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-17
- How to Draw Ideas2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-02
- Aristotle – How to live a good life2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-18
- Edmund Husserl – Consciousness2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-28
- What Is a Picture?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-14
- Albert Camus on how to live in an absurd world2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-09
- Immanuel Kant–What can we know?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-02
- A quick beginner's guide to animation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-16
What Hacker News says?
The most recent article on the blog likely holds the answer to your question. (Disclaimer: I did not read it.) https://ralphammer.com/a-quick-beginners-guide-to-animation/
Comment linking /a-quick-beginners-guide-to-animation/
on “Aristotle – How to live a good life”Submitted Aristotle – How to live a good life as a story · 262 points
HN discussionI think you might enjoy reading Ralph Ammer's work: - https://ralphammer.com/how-to-get-started/ - https://ralphammer.com/the-creative-switch/ I wrote about a related subject here: https://sonnet.io/posts/hummingbirds/ Also, the difference between children and adults when it comes to creativity is a bit deeper. I agree that it's bread out of us. Two semi-random examples: - shaming kids for making mistakes or just do…
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on “Ideas and Creativity (2019)”Submitted Ralph Ammer – Make Me Think as a story · 67 points
HN discussionI started out being rather afraid I'd taken this article & Clifford seriously, but it was a good talk, with strong values in it, & that resonated with me. I continue to feel like computing is a deep rich pool, but that consumerization has us all splashing around in the kiddy pool. There's a lack of candor, dishonestly, that we work so hard to hide complexity. There was a neandering & fun diatrabe I ran into called "…
Comment linking /make-me-think/
on “Clifford Stoll was right; the web isn’t nirvana”Submitted Thomas Aquinas – The world is divine as a story · 37 points
HN discussionThey actually link an article they wrote on some drawing exercises. https://ralphammer.com/a-quick-beginners-guide-to-drawing/ Remind me of a lot of what we did in some of my old beginner art classes.
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on “How to Draw Ideas”Submitted Make Me Think as a story · 5 points
HN discussionDrawing on the recent article about Kant [1], if a concept is a mental categorisation of patterns within our sensory inputs, and reason is the mixing of such concepts according to some rules, and arriving at novel concepts that we have yet to experience as sensory inputs, then philosophy is a discipline that is in danger of a combinatorial explosion of concepts. While adhering to the general rules of reasoning, such…
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on “Whither Philosophy?”Submitted How to Draw Ideas as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe link is only a teaser, the actual guide is here: https://ralphammer.com/a-quick-beginners-guide-to-drawing/
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on “A quick beginner’s guide to drawing”Submitted Edmund Husserl – Consciousness as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aristotle – How to live a good life as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Creative Switch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Be Certain as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Edmund Husserl – Consciousness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quick beginner's guide to animation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is a Picture? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Me Think (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Me Think as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Albert Camus on how to live in an absurd world as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No More Boring Drawings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Immanuel Kant–What can we know? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Me Think as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perfect Drawing Tool as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted David Hume – Why we change our mind as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quick beginner’s guide to drawing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is a Picture? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Draw Ideas as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Me Think as a story · 1 points
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