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Sentience
Personal blog · sentience.lostbookofsales.comwritingphilosophy
Sentience is a personal blog at sentience.lostbookofsales.com about writing and philosophy. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one HN comment, in a thread on business books as entertainment rather than strategic tools. It links the blog's essay on the scientific method as a related piece of writing.
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.
Stories and essays as a creative outlet.
What Hacker News says?
This is very similar to the ”boundary condition” for the scientific method and the craziness of ”teaching business” in schools. I wrote my thoughts too about this at some point: https://sentience.lostbookofsales.com/essays/scientific-meth...
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on “Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools”Submitted This is why I set up Sentience as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat’s why I set up a subdomain for all sorts of ramblings that are not even search engine indexable: http://sentience.lostbookofsales.com My main website hasn’t seen any activity lately because of what you mention, and laziness…
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on “I don't like making the best things”Submitted Deliberate Rest as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI recently started writing a lot about depression trying to channel all this neurotic energy I have into some nice descriptive writing. Here's one where I describe the nice sauna experience I have every now and then in the town we're currently studying in: "One with Nature" -> https://sentience.lostbookofsales.com/one-with-nature/ It's some kind of a meditative process and I do it only when I truly feel like it. Wit…
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on “Is it worth writing about?”Submitted My Time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The boundary condition of Aristotle's scientific method: The human aspect as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never Finished as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can the value of human judgement be overtaken by machines? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted One with nature: My story about Sauna culture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neatly Flowing River as a story · 1 points
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