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Taylor Pearson
Personal blog · taylorpearson.me · on HN as thebear89economicsbusiness
Taylor Pearson's personal blog at taylorpearson.me covers economics and business. Since 2014, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “A Big Little Idea Called Ergodicity”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Taylor Pearson's blog, linked for its ergodicity explainer, the Dragon portfolio post, and an article on writing and marketing a book. Commenters use it as a reference for these topics.
- Recommended for · 5 comments
- Praised as a clear explanation of ergodicity, and recommended for the Dragon portfolio and the post on writing and marketing a book.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The home of Taylor Pearson. Studying how you can make better decisions about investing your time and money in the face of uncertainty.
Most-linked posts?
- A Big Little Idea Called Ergodicity5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-10-15
- Thinking in Limits: Two Simple Questions for Becoming a Better Entrepreneur3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-03
- How to Get Lucky: Focus on the Fat Tails3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-19
- Antifragile Planning3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-08
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-02
- Finding the Work Only You Can Do2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-04
- Product Market Fit Is Overrated.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-10
- The Dragon Portfolio: How to Preserve and Grow Your Wealth for the Next Century2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-16
What Hacker News says?
Great example of a non-ergodic event. The outcome (odds of dying) when considering of one individual longitudinally is entirely different from the outcome when considering a population of individuals at a single point in time. https://taylorpearson.me/ergodicity/
Comment linking /ergodicity/
on “Heuristics that almost always work”Submitted Why Is Bitcoin Valuable? as a story · 66 points
HN discussionThere's a couple of things I do that I've found beneficial to deal with this problem. 1. I've found it very beneficial to "Lock down" goals and objectives for the entire year. Spend 2 days thinking of what you want, with a 4 day review period and match them with a list of habits. Then put them somewhere you'll see every day. For instance, I put them on the right hand side of my main Trello Board. Every day, I see th…
Comment linking /weeklyreview/
on “Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma”Submitted My Favorite Heuristic for Evaluating Relationships: The Antifragile Person as a story · 47 points
HN discussionGet yourself into a mastermind group with 2-5 others in a similar situation - solo founders, bootstrappers, etc. You can start with just 1 other person then add more. Have a regular 1 hour video call every week or two. Everyone gives updates, support, and keeps each other accountable on goals. Keep a Slack/Skype channel open in between to say hi, help each other, share wins, etc. Bonus points for meeting locally, bu…
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on “Ask HN: I'm lonely. Are there any video chat support groups for solo founders?”Submitted How to Get Lucky: Focus on the Fat Tails as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI suggest taking a look at the dragon portfolio https://taylorpearson.me/thedragon/ The basic idea is that you create a balanced portfolio of assets that are negatively correlated with each other so that, over a very long time horizon , your wealth retains its value even in the face of uncertainty, black swan events, and volatility. An example would be owning an equal proportion of stock, cash, bitcoin, gold, fixed…
Comment linking /thedragon/
on “Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?”Submitted A Big Little Idea Called Ergodicity as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThat's also a good idea which would allow you to get feedback. I recommend you to read Taylor Pearson's article on how he approached writing and marketing his book: https://taylorpearson.me/jesusmarketing/ A shorter version written by me can be found here: https://www.writersincharge.com/taylor-pearson-sold-5000-cop...
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on “Anxious tech workers are going to therapy”Submitted Bug Out Bag Essentials for Reasonably Rational People as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis article linked above covers it well, highly recommended: https://taylorpearson.me/ergodicity/
Comment linking /ergodicity/
on “The Ergodicity Problem in Economics”Submitted 5 Mental Models to Help You Create More Leverage as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThanks for posting. I had read Antifragile in parts but I had never heard of Ergodicity. But it's a great technical term to understand! I looked online and found this post that explained it well: https://taylorpearson.me/ergodicity/
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on “The Ergodicity Problem in Economics”Submitted A Big Little Idea Called Ergodicity (Or the Ultimate Guide to Russian Roulette) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionin my country (Italy) there is no importance (or almost) to quality of projects (especially Technically), you have to face with ridiculous deadlines, poor team mate (in order of thech knowledge) and tremendous customers. Quality versus deadlines, jousting with shitty team members, or suffering the burden of demanding and insipid customers. All of this is normal. These are human factors, and they exist within a spect…
Comment linking /limits/
on “Ask HN: Technology stall”Submitted A Blockchain Explanation Your Parents Could Understand as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI want to start by saying that I saw this comment this morning, and have been thinking about it all day. Thank you for commenting this, and sticking around to defend your point. I do have a couple of comments. First, a system like you are describing is going to be highly efficient. However, this is not always a good thing. As you increase efficiency, in almost any system you will decrease robustness [0]. While this…
Comment linking /interestingtimes/robustness-efficiency-tradeoff/
on “Journalists aren’t the enemy of the people. But we’re not your friends either”Submitted How to Get Lucky: Focus on the Fat Tails as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI would suggest buying a Kindle book titled "The End of Jobs" by Taylor Pearson http://taylorpearson.me and look at the chapter on apprenticeships. Taylor gives excruciating detail on what a would-be apprentice (and the entrepreneur contemplating the responsibility of taking on an apprentice) should do, and what to expect from the relationship. You may find it useful in landing the position you desire.
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on “Ask HN: Would you hire me as an intern?”Submitted The Farmer's Fable: Free as in Lunch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTaylor Pearson - http://taylorpearson.me
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on “Ask HN: Do you know similar essays to Paul Graham's?”Submitted The 50 Definitive Business Books of All Time as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHey HN. Before you go ‘not another to-do list’; I wrote this for myself much earlier in the year, after using the “only set yourself 5 things to do every day” hack on paper for a few weeks, and it works quite well. I put it on its own domain shortly after so I could access it when out and about. I had some vague plan to ‘market’ it at some point, but other stuff took priority. Early this week I was talking to a frie…
Comment linking /fast/
on “Show HN: Five Things Today – a super simple to-do list”Submitted Antifragile Planning: Planning 90 Days at a Time for Optionality as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Increase Your Intelligence by Reading 60 Books a Year as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Product Market Fit Is Overrated. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hunt Your Sacred Cows as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get Lucky: Focus on the Fat Tails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Mimetic Theory? A Summary of Things Hidden Since the World's Foundation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get Lucky: Focus on the Fat Tails as a story · 2 points
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