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Steph Smith
Personal blog · blog.stephsmith.iocareerproductivityprogramming
Steph Smith writes Steph, a personal blog at blog.stephsmith.io about career, productivity and programming. Since 2019, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “To be great, be good repeatably”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Steph Smith's posts on writing as thinking and learning to write with confidence, plus essays on work, weekends, and motivation. One comment also discusses her bootstrapping calculator.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Remote work, continuous growth, and technology.
Most-linked posts?
- To be great, be good repeatably6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-06-12
- Writing Is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-06
- You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-14
- An Ode to Excel: 34 Years of Magic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-25
What Hacker News says?
There's this blog post: Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence https://blog.stephsmith.io/learning-to-write-with-confidence...
Comment linking /learning-to-write-with-confidence/
on “Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?”Submitted Writing Is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence as a story · 529 points
HN discussionTotally agree with you. I think the biggest reason this is not universal is because not everybody hates their job or working. I get an incredible amount of Joy doing what I do. So much so that when I get home I have plenty of energy to do a little more on my own personal projects. This is obviously not true every single day but the vast majority of days it is. That dosent mean I don’t love my wife or my family, quit…
Comment linking /you-dont-need-to-quit-your-job-to-make/
on “Why I hate the weekends (2017)”Submitted You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make as a story · 519 points
HN discussionLove the calculator, it’s very useful. In my view it has never been easier to build a technology business than today. The public cloud makes it so you can start small or free and scale as needed and almost everything has been open sourced. All you need is the idea and the will power. My only beef with the calculator is that I’d like to recommend another approach, that is you don’t actually need to quit your job to m…
Comment linking /you-dont-need-to-quit-your-job-to-make/
on “Bootstrapping Calculator: Do you have enough savings to fund your business?”Submitted To be great, be good repeatably as a story · 435 points
HN discussionWriting is Thinking — Learning to Write with Confidence: https://blog.stephsmith.io/learning-to-write-with-confidence...
Comment linking /learning-to-write-with-confidence/
on “My Year in Review: 2019”Submitted An Ode to Excel: 34 Years of Magic as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI discovered this post from this Nielsen tweet: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/10741501241697730... Which I discovered from this post: https://blog.stephsmith.io/how-to-be-great/ I wasn't sure how to name this post well so if anyone has any ideas let me know (since it's not about literal magicians)
Comment linking /how-to-be-great/
on “Becoming a magician (2018)”Submitted Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI think there's four things I suggest you consider. 1. Writing is thinking [1][2][3] There are a number of articles that explain this concept better than I can here, but assuming you understand the idea, I'll continue. The next time you're thinking about some problem, try to write your thoughts and reasoning down as notes. Your writing should be an extension of reasoning, and help formulate and refine your ideas. Wh…
Comment linking /learning-to-write-with-confidence/](https://blog.stephsmith.io/learning-to-write-with-confidence/)
on “Ask HN: How do you find motivation to write blog posts?”Submitted Managing Remote Teams: A Psychological Perspective as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Honest Guide to Remote Work as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Antifragility at Work: Change Is the Only Constant as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Ode to Excel as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Looking Inside a Box for People Thinking Outside of One as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New Age: Finding Non-Tech Remote Jobs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Ways to Use Google Sheets as a Database in Node as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted When do you become a developer? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A year of sponge as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatedly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dropping the Agenda: A Road to Effective Leadership as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 7 Myths of learning to code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Secret Towards Greatness as a story · 1 points
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