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Taimur Abdaal
Personal blog · taimur.me · on HN as refrigeratorcareerproductivity
Taimur Abdaal's personal blog at taimur.me covers career and productivity. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Where does the money go when you buy a domain name?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post holds notes from a Malcolm Gladwell masterclass. One commenter cites its idea of giving readers or listeners "candy" to help them retain and share ideas.
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.
Taimur Abdaal — founder/CEO of Causal (now at Lucanet), based in London.
Most-linked posts?
- Where does the money go when you buy a domain name?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-04-28
- Against Ambition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-10
What Hacker News says?
Ahh I did a bit of googling but couldn't find anything nice — sorry! Most of the time, the complex stuff is broken down into smaller "lemmas" with their own manageable proofs, and then the proof of the whole theorem will be something like "Follows from Lemma 2.1, Lemma 2.2, and a basic application of Theorem 1.4" This is the theorem I was talking about: https://i.imgur.com/1xEH51Z.png (taken from https://taimur.me/p…
Comment linking /posts/thinking-at-the-right-level-of-abstraction/
on “How to Understand Things”Submitted Notes from Malcolm Gladwell's Writing Masterclass as a story · 197 points
HN discussionhttps://taimur.me/about
Comment linking /about
on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”Submitted Hacker News Points Inflation as a story · 117 points
HN discussionOn a related tangent - One thing that I learned from Gladwell's masterclass notes [1] is giving the reader (or listener in a speech) some candy. Candies are fluffy - but they also help readers/listeners retain more and also share more. Personally I've noticed myself using such candies to broach an idea with someone or a team - and the difference in interest is visible. [1] - https://taimur.me/posts/notes-from-malcol…
Comment linking /posts/notes-from-malcolm-gladwell-s-writing-masterclass-part-1/
on “Why books don't work (2019)”Submitted Points Inflation on Hacker News as a story · 5 points
HN discussionrecently started blogging: https://taimur.me trying to publish something once a week, either there, or for bigger researched pieces, on Medium ( https://medium.com/@taimurabdaal )
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on “Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?”Submitted Measure: A mental model for decision-making as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learn by exploration, then by theory as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Netflix-onomics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Netflix-onomics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Netflix-onomics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What actually happens when you buy a domain name? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where does the money go when you buy a domain name? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Books I bought in 2019 but didn't read as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Ambition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes from Malcolm Gladwell's Writing Masterclass – Part 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Netflix-onomics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacker News Points Inflation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacker News Points Inflation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What actually happens when you buy a domain name? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Ambition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted High-Leverage Housekeeping as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pleasure of Guilty Pleasures as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Water – some thoughts on introspection and personal growth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Social Optionality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Social Optionality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Social Optionality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book Review: The War of Art as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Amazement of the Knowledgeable Person as a story · 1 points
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