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Six Kids and a Full Time Job is a personal blog at sixkidsandafulltimejob.blogspot.com about startups, business and culture. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The Hummus Manifesto”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
6HN people?
2010–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link its 'Hummus Manifesto' series as a counter to the 'Startup Nation' book's picture of Israel. One thread also cites its claim that army service explains weaker outcomes for Israeli Jews.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

I am founding Equal Partner at Aleph (www.aleph.vc), General Partner at Benchmark Capital, Orthodox Jew, have EIGHT (corrected) kids and a very wonderful wife. I live in Jerusalem & work in the heart of Tel Aviv, Israel. I sit on educational non-profit boards and care about the growth of Israel&

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Hummus Manifesto
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-07-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. Speaking of farmers, I read a post about http://farmingo.com that: "As America starts to debate farm subsidies and big ag, while college grads are starting more small farms than any time in the last 100 years, look to the power of technology to break open an unhealthy and highly inefficient food distribution system that has left the world both obese and stuck with higher food prices." "Corbin Hill is using Farmigo a…

    Comment linking /2011/11/corbin-hill-farm-farmigo-doing-well.html

    on “AI are taking jobs”
  2. Submitted The Hummus Manifesto as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  3. nivertech · 2010-12-24Recommends
    It's debatable. "Startup Nation" is an excellent PR book, but nothing more. For the real state of affair read "Hummus Manifesto" [1]. The fact is, that Jewish peers outside Israel has more success, than in Israel. It can easily be explained by the fact that they didn't wasted 3 most productive years of their lives to the army service. The Jewish population in Israel is more a less of the same size as Jewish populati…

    Comment linking /2010/07/hummus-manifesto-part-1.html

    on “How to create a startup country”
  4. Submitted The Hummus Manifesto: Problems with entrepreneurship in Israel as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Entrepreneurship: http://cdixon.org/ http://derekandersen.me/ http://davidcummings.org/ http://viniciusvacanti.com/ http://www.steveblank.com/ http://37signals.com/svn Startup/Tech Marketing: http://www.responsys.com/blogs/nsm/ http://startup-marketing.com/ http://blog.kissmetrics.com/ http://unbounce.com/blog/ Venture Capital: http://bhorowitz.com/ http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/ http://www.feld.com/wp/ http://…

    Comment linking /

    on “What rss feeds do you subscribe to?”
  6. Submitted The Hummus Manifesto - Part 1 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. The Hummus Manifesto - Part 2 http://sixkidsandafulltimejob.blogspot.com/2010/07/hummus-ma...

    Comment linking /2010/07/hummus-manifesto-part-2.html

    on “The Hummus Manifesto - Part 1”
  8. Submitted Great Hi Tech Businesses Like Conduit Also Create a Better Society as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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