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Shyam Sankar

Personal blog · shyamsankar.combusinesseconomics

Shyam Sankar's personal blog at shyamsankar.com covers business and economics. Since 2012, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “The Case Against Work-Life Balance: Owning Your Future”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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21mentions?
18HN people?
2012–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2015

Views from the Shire. Thoughts on business, strategy, defense, technology.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Case Against Work-Life Balance: Owning Your Future
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-11-16
  2. The Case Against Work-Life Balance: Owning Your Future
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-10
  3. What Money Can't Buy
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-28
  4. Do Important Things
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. galenmarchetti · 2024-02-02

    Submitted An alternative cause for the Great Stagnation: the cargo cult company as a story · 110 points

    HN discussion
  2. deadcoder0904 · 2021-12-22

    Submitted The Case Against Work-Life Balance: Owning Your Future as a story · 5 points

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  3. zedbed · 2015-11-16

    Submitted The Case Against Work-Life Balance: Owning Your Future as a story · 4 points

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  4. scottilee · 2012-09-08

    Submitted Do Important Things as a story · 4 points

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  5. npalli · 2017-06-24

    Submitted The Case Against Work-Life Balance: Owning Your Future as a story · 3 points

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  6. sankarravi · 2015-04-06

    Submitted Don't Let Techno-Hedonism Waste Your Potential as a story · 3 points

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  7. beefman · 2024-06-30

    Submitted What Money Can't Buy as a story · 2 points

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  8. _ttg · 2020-01-10

    Submitted The Case Against Work-Life Balance as a story · 2 points

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  9. randomname2 · 2015-11-17

    Submitted The Case Against Work-Life Balance as a story · 2 points

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  10. carbocation · 2012-10-27

    Submitted Calculus vs. Statistics as a story · 2 points

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  11. spiffage · 2012-04-09

    Submitted Do Important Things as a story · 2 points

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  12. justinl33 · 2024-08-18

    Submitted The case against work life balance (Shyam Sankar) as a story · 1 points

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  13. galenmarchetti · 2024-06-28

    Submitted What Money Can't Buy as a story · 1 points

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  14. galenmarchetti · 2024-01-09

    Submitted Criticisms of DoD's Replicator initiative reveal worship of process over content as a story · 1 points

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  15. ravagat · 2023-01-30

    Submitted Head West (2012) as a story · 1 points

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  16. _ttg · 2021-11-10

    Submitted The Case Against Work Life Balance as a story · 1 points

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  17. roarktoohey · 2016-05-08

    Submitted The Case Against Work-Life Balance: Owning Your Future (2015) as a story · 1 points

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  18. jimsojim · 2015-11-18

    Submitted The Case Against Work-Life Balance as a story · 1 points

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  19. andyqin · 2015-11-18

    Submitted Why you shouldn't be comfortable in your 20's as a story · 1 points

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  20. drob · 2013-10-06

    Submitted Soup Tasting as a story · 1 points

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  21. jchonphoenix · 2012-11-16

    Submitted Focus on the First Derivative as a story · 1 points

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