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The Electric Monk
Personal blog · theelectricmonk.comwritingculture
The Electric Monk is a personal blog at theelectricmonk.com about writing and culture. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Electric Monk's posts and story pages, which draw on Douglas Adams' Electric Monk idea and cover topics such as online advertising and reinforced concrete. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /ElectricMonk.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-23
What Hacker News says?
So we're now at the point where Douglas Adams' Electric Monk[1], [2] idea becomes viable, except for watching ads, not for believing in things for you... Someone should start an "advertising consumption as a service" company where we can pay a subscription to a 3rd party to provide software to consume all of the ads that would otherwise be targeted at the user! Some of that fee can then be sent to the original adver…
Comment linking /ElectricMonk.html
on “What Happens Next Will Amaze You”Submitted The Electric Monk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFrom "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams, for anyone curious to read the whole story: http://theelectricmonk.com/ElectricMonk.html
Comment linking /ElectricMonk.html
on “The problem with reinforced concrete”