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Robert Greiner
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Robert Greiner's personal blog at robertgreiner.com covers ai and career. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 76 times, most often “Sync to Paper”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-05, 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 Robert Greiner's posts on syncing daily todos to paper and on cloud versus on-prem infrastructure. The comments cite them as background rather than praising them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I write about AI strategy, leadership, and technology.
Most-linked posts?
- Sync to Paper2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-26
What Hacker News says?
Consider for a moment that it might not be a "hipsterbrag" and just a colloquial name for a type of notebook. The concept of "Syncing" to paper is quite common[1][2]. [1] http://robertgreiner.com/2013/03/sync-to-paper/ [2] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TotallyStressedOutSyncToPaper...
Comment linking /2013/03/sync-to-paper/
on “Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?”Submitted Believe the Checkbook as a story · 169 points
HN discussionThis is simply not true unless you build in the cloud the same way you build on prem and just have a bunch of VMs. PaaS services get you away from server / network / driver maintenance and handle disaster recovery and replication out of the box. If you're primarily using IaaS, you likely shouldn't be in the cloud unless you're really leveraging the bursting capabilities. https://robertgreiner.com/content/images/2019…
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on “De-cloud and de-K8s – Bringing our apps back home”Submitted Remote as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sync to Paper as a story · 66 points
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