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Jason Yip
Personal blog · jchyip.medium.comcareerproductivity
Jason Yip's personal blog at jchyip.medium.com covers career and productivity. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Why T-shaped people? (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jason Yip's Medium essays on the 'wildcard person' idea, one commenter comparing it to the T-shaped people concept. The single comment calls it a nice read.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why T-shaped people? (2018)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-28
- Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-11
What Hacker News says?
Nice read. Kind of reminds me of T shaped people - https://jchyip.medium.com/why-t-shaped-people-e8706198e437
Comment linking /why-t-shaped-people-e8706198e437
on “What Is a Wildcard Person?”Submitted Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations as a story · 176 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why goal cascades are harmful and what to do instead as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad idea: Platforms automatically improve productivity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Key practice: Aligned, autonomous cross-disciplinary teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guiding Principle: Think Big, Work Small as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why T-shaped people? (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is good engineering strategy typically boring? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things that are typically confused for productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My typical tactics for influencing leaders at different levels as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The age of cargo cult Agile must end as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing “Too Much WIP” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why T-shaped people? (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guiding principle: Speed generates quality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guiding principle: cross-pollination over imposed standards as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Spotify) Models are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of the wise as a story · 1 points
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