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Sidwyn Koh
Personal blog · pathtostaff.comcareerprogramming
Sidwyn Koh writes Path to Staff Engineer, a personal blog at pathtostaff.com about career and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Work Life balance slows careers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's post on work-life balance and career growth. One commenter cites it in a thread on attention and time, and it is discussed as an argument about career tradeoffs.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Work Life balance slows careers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-21
What Hacker News says?
Attention is relative, like if you're in the middle of some code review and your kid calls saying they've got a problem, then you may get distracted - but rightfully so. Not like this jerk, who's kid had to put time in his calendar for playing chess with him, because he was too interested in his own career https://www.pathtostaff.com/p/work-life-balance-slows-career...
Comment linking /p/work-life-balance-slows-careers-e9
on “Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)”Submitted Work Life balance slows careers as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hardware Behind AI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-Attention Solved the Sequential Bottleneck as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're Not Getting Promoted Because You're Doing Your Job as a story · 3 points
HN discussion