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ryanwaggoner.com is a personal blog at ryanwaggoner.com about startups and productivity. Since 2008, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 102 times, most often “How to retire at 30 on $1 million”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link it as examples of habit-building, such as a 135-day early-rising experiment, and as an argument against utopian views of free online education. Commenters also cite it as a source for a scanning workflow.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to retire at 30 on $1 million2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-08-25
- 135 days of getting up at 345am (and how I fell off the wagon)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-01-19
- Why I started reading more once I got rid of my books2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-29
- How to hit the Hacker News front page (and what it’s worth)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-29
- How to become a freelance web developer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-06
- How I filled two dumpsters and went paperless2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-23
What Hacker News says?
Looking at your blog http://ryanwaggoner.com/ , I can see why you would come to his defence. You're obviously very much into self-help books. That stuff doesn't work for everyone.
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on “The 4-Hour Dentist”Submitted I’m done building Facebook apps for clients as a story · 348 points
HN discussionnah, just new habits. Like this guy who got up at 3:45am for 135 days: http://ryanwaggoner.com/2011/01/135-days-of-getting-up-at-34...
Comment linking /2011/01/135-days-of-getting-up-at-345am-and-how-i-fell-off-the-wagon/
on “Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?”Submitted How to be a freelance web developer, part 2 as a story · 284 points
HN discussionI don't care one way or the other. However I do think it's slightly disingenuous to brush off a comment about affiliate payments in such a flippant way, when monetisation seems to provide at least some motivation for writing the blog ( http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/october-2010-blog-income-upd... ).
Comment linking /2010/11/october-2010-blog-income-update/
on “How to build discipline and brainwash yourself”Submitted How to become a freelance web developer as a story · 256 points
HN discussionA million dollars is actually not enough to secure a dignified existence in the US. Nonsense: http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/08/how-to-retire-at-30-on-1-mil... Not to face bankruptcy if a major health problem arises? Health insurance isn't that expensive unless you have a pre-existing condition [1]. I won't talk about the college and home ownership questions other than to say that families have figured out how to live…
Comment linking /2010/08/how-to-retire-at-30-on-1-million/
on “You don't really want a million dollars”Submitted How to build discipline and brainwash yourself as a story · 253 points
HN discussionIronically, I also wrote a post on this exact subject a few months ago: http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/08/how-to-retire-at-30-on-1-mil... I was really responding to the claim that you can't retire on $1m in that post, whereas the post I wrote today is more about the idea that you might not need to "retire" at all...
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on “You don't really want a million dollars”Submitted You don't really want a million dollars as a story · 221 points
HN discussionI thought this was a good post: http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/08/why-free-online-education-wo... Presents an interesting case against a lot of technical Utopian ideas about tech/ed, highlighted the resistance to change in a lot of entrenched interest groups e.g. parent pressure isn't stressed nearly enough by most. It is a well thought out articulation of an interesting POV. I really wasn't trying to be content polic…
Comment linking /2010/08/why-free-online-education-wont-replace-traditional-college-anytime-soon/
on “Damn you, Arduino...I have no free time for this.”Submitted How to retire at 30 on $1 million as a story · 175 points
HN discussionSteve Pavlina also talks about this in another post, and I did it for a month to train myself to get up at 345am, which I did with 99% consistency for the next 4.5 months [1]. Starting in Jan, I've been getting up at 430am instead, but this technique of training your subconscious is one of the most effective hacks I've ever tried. 1. http://ryanwaggoner.com/2011/01/135-days-of-getting-up-at-34...
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on “Sleep hacks: How to Become an Early Riser”Submitted Damn you, Arduino...I have no free time for this. as a story · 169 points
HN discussionI agree with the sentiment of not getting caught up second-guessing yourself, but I think that the line of reasoning you're espousing destroys any hope of learning from past mistakes, and by extension, diminishes the importance of carefully considering future decisions. If I don't look back and learn from my mistakes because I never know what would have happened in the other case, why bother putting any thought into…
Comment linking /2010/08/why-im-learning-to-love-regret/
on “Be who you are”Submitted How I filled two dumpsters and went paperless as a story · 167 points
HN discussionAbsolutely. I use a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner[1], along with the software that comes with it. Automatically OCRs both sides and then stores it on disk. I don't even have to name files as they are full-text-searchable in Finder on OSX. Check out Ryan Waggoner's post[2] on this (where I got the idea from). [1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001XWCQO2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... [2] http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/how-i-fill…
Comment linking /2010/11/how-i-filled-two-dumpsters-and-went-paperless-with-the-fujitsu-scansnap-s1500/
on “Evernote Gets $50 Million in Funding”Submitted People who destroy entrepreneurial value are the scum of the earth as a story · 152 points
HN discussion> Has anybody _exclusively_ begun using ebooks? I have. I got a Kindle, and I love it. It's a no-brainer for me. I move relatively often, like to travel, and commute to work by train. I mostly read non-fiction books that are all (or mostly) text. Re: e-readers vs tablets The e-reader will give you less physical strain due to the lighter weight and e-ink screen. And less strain = more pleasure, while reading. It's th…
Comment linking /2010/11/how-i-read-more-by-getting-rid-of-my-books/
on “You’ve Got Mail is Ripe for a Sequel”Submitted Some things I love about Hacker News (and a few I don’t) as a story · 135 points
HN discussionInteresting idea...just for reference, I ran it on a recent blog post of mine: http://www.ryanwaggoner.com/2008/08/how-simple-is-too-simple... (sorry for the spam :-) Overall, I would say that it was most useful when it was pointing out things like passive voice or cliches, and less useful when telling me to replace relatively simple words or phrases with even simpler ones. Some of the words were things like: "feedb…
Comment linking /2008/08/how-simple-is-too-simple/
on “Ask YC: Feedback on PolishMyWriting.com ”Submitted How to hit the Hacker News front page (and what it’s worth) as a story · 105 points
HN discussionClickables: http://www.sebastianmarshall.com http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/07/more-on-habits/ Congrats - I'm pleased you're happy, and keep it up!
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on “Thanks HN, I'm changing my life (In London?)”Submitted Is there such a thing as a sustainable todo system? as a story · 96 points
HN discussionI didn't write anything about doctors. I just submitted the link. Each comment here is submitted by a different hacker news member. The reason why I submitted the link is because over the past few days there's been a lot of articles on hacker news about how to work as a freelance coder. One of the routes they spoke about on those articles was to apply to craigslist jobs for freelance work. http://ryanwaggoner.com/20…
Comment linking /2010/10/how-to-become-a-freelance-web-developer/
on “Classic craigslist coding job ad Not to follow up”Submitted Peter Shankman / HARO Just Sent Me a Cease-and-Desist Letter. What Now? as a story · 95 points
HN discussionI've had that for awhile and it's actually pretty controversial with the HN crowd...every time one of my posts hits the homepage there's a thread of comments about whether it's appropriate :) If you're interested, it's the WP Greet Box plugin for Wordpress: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-greet-box/ I'll be blogging more in Feb and March about what I'm doing to grow the blog aggressively, but it has less to d…
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on “How would you accomplish the impossible if your life depended on it?”Submitted The daily tomato: How to maintain focus and kick ass on multiple projects as a story · 91 points
HN discussionSubmitted The most common failure mode is failing to show up as a story · 82 points
HN discussionSubmitted No company should ever have a noreply email address as a story · 72 points
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