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Salim Virani
Personal blog · saintsal.comstartupsbusinessproductivity
Salim Virani's personal blog at saintsal.com covers startups, business and productivity. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Get your loved ones off Facebook”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Salim Virani's posts on leaving Facebook and its privacy and social effects, and a piece on a visual representation of startup cash flow. Comments mostly cite the posts as support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Salim's notes along the way
Most-linked posts?
- Get your loved ones off Facebook4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-02-01
- A Visual Language For Finance Patterns2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-01
What Hacker News says?
yes one's own experience is always anecdotal and due to perception bias we believe our personal experience to be significant. You're not special, we pretty much all do this. Please define active user as it could mean anything, then again don't, as number of used (which is more appropriate than users for facebook) and advertising dollars are hardly valid metrics for bringing people together and positive life changing…
Comment linking /facebook/
on “A letter to our daughter”Submitted Get your loved ones off Facebook as a story · 471 points
HN discussionGet your loved ones off Facebook from Salim Virani http://saintsal.com/facebook/ "I've been a big Facebook supporter - one of the first users in my social group who championed what a great way it was to stay in touch, way back in 2006. I got my mum and brothers on it, and around 20 other people. I've even taught Facebook marketing in one of the UK's biggest tech education projects, Digital Business Academy. I'm a te…
Comment linking /facebook/
on “Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger”Submitted A Visual Language For Finance Patterns as a story · 36 points
HN discussionCorrect. I don't want a personal or work FB account that has my real identity. I don't want to share my identity with FB period. I consider it toxic. This is personal opinion, but by having an account with a real identity, I am consenting to Facebook spying on me and my friends. The application is a leaky sieve, and it is designed to follow you and your habits around the web. Therefore I use a fake but real looking…
Comment linking /facebook/
on “Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dangerous for your users”Submitted Why my cofounder is my biggest rival as a story · 22 points
HN discussionHere's a number of reasons why I (like the author) am not on Facebook anymore (permanently deleted account 2 years ago): http://saintsal.com/facebook/
Comment linking /facebook/
on “Ask HN: Why are you off Facebook?”Submitted The History Of Lean Startup as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI think this is the startup of a powerful representation for a startup. I think the cash should be able to go negative to represent draw downs from savings or outside investment. This reminded me of Richard Caro's "Cashflow Fingerprint" for startups see http://blip.tv/science-to-profits/startup-cashflow-fingerpri... and work by Sal Virani and Mark Twum-Ampofo on a "Visual Language for Finance" http://www.saintsal.co…
Comment linking /2012/01/a-visual-language-for-finance/
on “The Simple Shapes of Startups”Submitted What do we do about bad startup advice? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Falsifiable hypotheses – the solution to torturing your data. as a story · 4 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Startup lessons from Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What can London's Google Campus teach us about PG’s view of startup hubs? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evaluate your idea in 3 minutes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to choose your customer learning method as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-improvement vs self-confidence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seriously, WTF? The question everyone asks but only iconoclasts answer. as a story · 1 points
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