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Raptitude.com
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Raptitude.com is a personal blog at raptitude.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2011, 138 different Hacker News readers have linked it 210 times, most often “Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Often recommended · 18 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Raptitude for essays on procrastination, news consumption and everyday life. Commenters value it as free writing that some say helped them change habits.
- Recommended for · 18 comments
- Commenters call it high quality and worth reading, and say specific posts helped them or became favourites.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A street-level look at being human
Most-linked posts?
- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-01-27
- Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-05-30
- Everything must be paid for twice6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-01-20
- Things You Notice When You Quit the News5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-12-07
- /2011/05/procrastination-is-not-laziness/5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-03-15
- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-06-24
- Most lives are lived by default4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-12-06
- How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-28
- How to Just Do a Thing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-14
- How to Make Trillions of Dollars3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-01-27
What Hacker News says?
And this: https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-whe...
Comment linking /2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/
on “Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life”Submitted Things you notice when you quit the news (2016) as a story · 1256 points
HN discussion"Costs" does not have to mean "advertising". Here's some quality content: https://www.raptitude.com/ I've been following that blog for years, via RSS. Every article he writes, I read. He gives it away. You can support him by becoming a patron or signing up to courses, etc. he offers. No advertising, and very high quality.
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on “It’s Time to Get Back to RSS”Submitted Things You Notice When You Quit the News as a story · 891 points
HN discussionIn case anyone goes looking for the follow up to this post - you can find it here: http://www.raptitude.com/2011/05/progress-is-the-only-protec... Original post: http://www.raptitude.com/2011/05/procrastination-is-not-lazi...
Comment linking /2011/05/procrastination-is-not-laziness/
on “Procrastination is Not Laziness”Submitted Do quests, not goals as a story · 649 points
HN discussionHere is the original posting w/ comments from 2011: http://www.raptitude.com/2011/05/procrastination-is-not-lazi...
Comment linking /2011/05/procrastination-is-not-laziness/
on “Procrastination is Not Laziness”Submitted Everything must be paid for twice as a story · 406 points
HN discussionActually, this post is from 2011 as well: http://www.raptitude.com/2011/05/procrastination-is-not-lazi...
Comment linking /2011/05/procrastination-is-not-laziness/
on “Procrastination is Not Laziness”Submitted Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) as a story · 350 points
HN discussionHere's a link to the "Experiment No. 11" he mentioned: http://www.raptitude.com/experiment-log-no-11-an-attack-on-p...
Comment linking /experiment-log-no-11-an-attack-on-procrastination/
on “Procrastination is Not Laziness”Submitted How to Make Trillions of Dollars as a story · 284 points
HN discussion"Your Lifestyle has already been designed" from Raptitude blog. https://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already... (the title is self explanatory)
Comment linking /2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/
on “Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?”Submitted Most lives are lived by default as a story · 257 points
HN discussionhttps://www.raptitude.com/2022/01/everything-must-be-paid-fo...
Comment linking /2022/01/everything-must-be-paid-for-twice/
on “Z-library founders arrested in Argentina”Submitted How to get yourself to do things (2015) as a story · 229 points
HN discussionThese links discuss "news diets" as a counter to the problem of news as low-quality information and/or information pollution: http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when... . http://www.dobelli.com/en/essays/news-diet/ And here's a similar recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084099
Comment linking /2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when..
on “The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News”Submitted Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) as a story · 227 points
HN discussionThis helped me hugely - procrastination is a symptom of an over-achiever who is afraid to fail, because they rarely have. Start from halfway down on 'The Real Causes of Procrastination'. Welcome to the club: http://www.raptitude.com/2011/05/procrastination-is-not-lazi...
Comment linking /2011/05/procrastination-is-not-laziness/
on “Ask HN: I'm a chronic procrastinator – how do I break it?”Submitted Nobody knows what's going on as a story · 225 points
HN discussionRaptitude has a good article about why you should read less news: https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-whe...
Comment linking /2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/
on “Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive?”Submitted What I learned during my three days offline as a story · 209 points
HN discussionTop stories on HN kill servers. http://www.raptitude.com/ is inaccessible. I think its HN's moral duty to implement some-kind of caching mechanism for top rated stories.
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on “Most lives are lived by default”Submitted Smartphones Are Toys First, Tools Second as a story · 196 points
HN discussionThe original article on the author's blog asks for an email address at the bottom of every article. http://www.raptitude.com/2011/01/how-to-make-trillions-of-do...
Comment linking /2011/01/how-to-make-trillions-of-dollars/
on “How To Make Trillions Of Dollars”Submitted Most lives are lived by default (2012) as a story · 156 points
HN discussionOriginally posted on the author's blog, about 2 years ago http://www.raptitude.com/2011/01/how-to-make-trillions-of-do...
Comment linking /2011/01/how-to-make-trillions-of-dollars/
on “How To Make Trillions Of Dollars”Submitted How to make the internet small again as a story · 98 points
HN discussionI read this post from 2015 yesterday and was amused because the guy clearly seemed to have ADHD in my opinion [0]. Then in the comments on HN somebody mentioned that the author recently wrote about being diagnosed at 40, which may be an interesting read here [1]. The author says it was like living the Truman show. ADHD can be harmful and comes with a bunch of comorbidities that can also develop later in life. If you…
Comment linking /2021/03/what-raptitude-has-always-been-about/
on “Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?”Submitted The Rut Principle as a story · 91 points
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