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Sean Blanda
Personal blog · seanblanda.com · on HN as SeanBlandacareerbusinesswriting
Sean Blanda's personal blog at seanblanda.com covers career, business and writing. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sean Blanda's essays on owning one's platform after the decline of RSS and blogs, and on localism and community in America. The comments cite these posts as sources rather than judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
From the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190324154559/http://alwaysowny... > You know, it wasn't that long ago. There was RSS. There were blogs. There were sub-groups and communities. The weirdos found each other. The non-weirdos found each other. It wasn't perfect. But it was distributed. It was ours. > It was yours. > Now? The original dream of the web is dying. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Medium, an…
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on “Always Own Your Platform”Submitted My dead dad’s journal as a story · 472 points
HN discussionI waited entirely too long to get settled. I didn't really understand the value of "home" until my thirties. I used to be a hardcore "minimalist" throughout my twenties and into my early thirties. I didn't want to own anything at all, didn't want to have objects or things that I'd have to move, that could tie me down to a space or place. I didn't want to have to fix or maintain anything. In my thirties, I realized t…
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on “Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?”Submitted Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker as a story · 241 points
HN discussionHow do we find places that still value and foster this kind of community? And how do we contribute to it ourselves? Lately I've been wanting to be intentional about getting involved, getting to know people, etc. I came across this blog post on the topic from HN a few months ago: https://www.seanblanda.com/its-time-for-localism-in-america/
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on “Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dunkin' Donuts”Submitted Confessions of a tech journalist: my advice to startups pitching the media as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Take a Sabbatical as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We need to reinvent the article as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Jack White School of Business as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Philly’s “blog tax” as a story · 2 points
HN discussion