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Stories by swardley on Medium
Personal blog · swardley.medium.combusinessculture
Stories by swardley on Medium is a personal blog at swardley.medium.com about business and culture. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “How organizations are changing (2021)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in one comment on a thread about developer loneliness, where the commenter discusses how to recognise good engineers. The comment does not assess the writing itself.
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?
- How organizations are changing (2021)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-06-04
- Digital Sovereignty2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-23
What Hacker News says?
Note that in my experience, heuristics for spotting good engineers tend not to work unless you yourself are a good engineer. You don't necessarily have to be the same kind of good, though that's obviously the least effort, and tends to overemphasize other points of similarity that are conflated with the "goodness". Specialists and Generalists tend not to respect each other, for example. Folks with CS degrees and aut…
Comment linking /what-culture-is-right-for-you-ba892f1f3bc5
on “Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer”Submitted How organizations are changing (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital Sovereignty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital Sovereignty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Organisations Are Changing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How organisations are changing.. The next “next” generation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Organisations Are Changing as a story · 1 points
HN discussion