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The Aleph Blog
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The Aleph Blog is a personal blog at alephblog.com about economics and business. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on freelance work and when to push back, and on where to keep business cash savings and stock market risk. The comments discuss those topics and do not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
yeah. i think it is probably healthier for most people to aim for work that is in relatively high demand, and hence has relatively good working conditions / pay / career options, and then decouple the "do what you love" activities from work activities. to quote a programming blog, "work expands until it exceeds your capacity for stress". if you are in the luxurious position to do so (i.e. you have a few options for…
Comment linking /2015/07/25/the-school-of-money-first-grade/
on “Freelancers are precarious. When should they push back?”Submitted Problems with Constant Compound Interest (6) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe US stock market is very highly priced when compared to historical prices from all other periods. There's a lot of room for US stock prices to go down and little room for stock prices to go to up. It might be fine to put money into the US stock market if one is prepared to leave it there for a very long time in the event that market prices crash, but it sounds like the OP was talking about time horizons of months…
Comment linking /2018/03/14/estimating-future-stock-returns-december-2017-update/
on “Ask HN: What do you do with cash savings in your business bank account?”Submitted Industry Ranks August 2014 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What caused the financial crisis? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion