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Tasshin
Personal blog · tasshin.com/blog · on HN as mwfoglemanphilosophyculture
Tasshin is a personal blog at tasshin.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Strategy 101: An introduction to power”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links Tasshin's posts on Emacs org-mode as a second brain, strategy and power, and Buddhist metta practice, plus a join page for a weekly group. No comment praises the writing itself.
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.
Hi! I’m Tasshin! I’m an extremely online pilgrim wandering this precious world for the benefit of all beings. 💗
Most-linked posts?
- Strategy 101: An introduction to power2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-19
- Path of Love Skill Tree – Tasshin2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-08
What Hacker News says?
So I started taking a course recently based on an HN post about putting everything in org-mode: https://tasshin.com/blog/implementing-a-second-brain-in-emac... What I found pretty quickly was that org-mode is great for organizing things in emacs. BUT if you ingest any meaningful amount of ideas from outside of emacs, it gets orders of magnitude more difficult to put your "whole life" in there. Emacs was built in a p…
Comment linking /blog/implementing-a-second-brain-in-emacs-and-org-mode/
on “Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text”Submitted A Guide to Twitter as a story · 228 points
HN discussionhttps://tasshin.com/join/
Comment linking /join/
on “Strategy 101: An introduction to power”Submitted Strategy 101: An introduction to power as a story · 158 points
HN discussionI grabbed a random article in my to read list and it didn’t help me understand the article. https://tasshin.com/blog/strategy-101/ Lots of words I was unfamiliar with because they were domain specific terms and they were not defined
Comment linking /blog/strategy-101/
on “New Universal Summarizer by Kagi”Submitted Why I Don't Want Kids as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere's a wonderful group that meets every Saturday to practice and discuss: https://tasshin.com/metta-squad/
Comment linking /metta-squad/
on “Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness”Submitted Share Your Knowledge Essay Contest as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Talent Is Not Rare as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Asheville-NYC-SFBA Triangle as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on "Do 100 Thing" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build a Crew as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Value of Emotional Check-Ins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Path of Love Skill Tree – Tasshin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Practice of Friendship as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Bio-Emotive Framework: An Escape from the Hell of Unprocessed Emotions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feeds: An Anthropological Report on a Powerful Online Social Technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learn You a Fundraising for Great Good! as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cultivating Praxia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trust Dancing and Distrust Wrestling: Exploring Malcolm Ocean's NNTD as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Anti-Power Meme as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Thoughts on Blind Spots as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Solar System Model of Collective Learning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Questions to Consider Before a Collaboration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding and reading the exact-perfect-for-you-right-now book as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted God Bless Fred as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pitching Collaborations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Guide to Enjoying Discord as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Path of Love Skill Tree: a skill tree for heart-centered meditation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Day I Was Born as a story · 1 points
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