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ravik
Personal blog · ravik.substack.com · on HN as bluecheese33economicsphilosophy
ravik is a personal blog at ravik.substack.com about economics and philosophy. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Focus, Flow, and Burnout”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter in an Ask HN thread on burnout recommended a post on focus, flow and burnout as a good blog on the subject. The author is a friend of the commenter.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
On philosophy, economics, programming. Launched 5 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- Focus, Flow, and Burnout2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-11
- An Anthropology of Clean Code2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-30
What Hacker News says?
This is a good blog on the subject by a friend of mine: https://ravik.substack.com/p/focus-flow-and-burnout
Comment linking /p/focus-flow-and-burnout
on “Ask HN: Burned Out. What Now?”Submitted A $795M analogy: Locast, broadcast copyright, and the fall of big antenna as a story · 70 points
HN discussionI think modern economists have been acknowledging and quantifying the flaws in simplifying assumptions in economic models for decades [1]. That being said, I do think there is a serious problem in the way economics is often taught, and things like debt (and more broadly, anthropology) is part of the cure [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics [2] https://ravik.substack.com/p/does-learning-economi…
Comment linking /p/does-learning-economics-make-you
on “David Graeber’s Possible Worlds”Submitted Focus, Flow, and Burnout as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNeat, I skimmed through "metaphors we live by" a few weeks ago and can't stop applying it everywhere. I recently wrote a post that's kind of on "GOOD CODE IS CLEAN" [1]. I can't recall how dependent I was on physical metaphors when I was first learning to code. I do, however, remember some times that I tried to learn concepts and a spatial metaphor set me back significantly. Like "railway-oriented" for async error h…
Comment linking /p/an-anthropology-of-clean-code
on “Metaphors we learn to program by”Submitted An Anthropology of Clean Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Anthropology of Clean Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Focus, Flow, and Burnout as a story · 2 points
HN discussion