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The Homebound Symphony
Personal blog · blog.ayjay.orgculturewriting
The Homebound Symphony is a personal blog at blog.ayjay.org about culture and writing. Since 2017, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “The Attention Cottage”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on thinking and quotations, and a thread-style post about longform writing on Twitter. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Attention Cottage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-23
What Hacker News says?
Wow, one day after this post: https://blog.ayjay.org/two-quotations-on-the-brief-dream-of-...
Comment linking /two-quotations-on-the-brief-dream-of-the-human-intellect/
on “Thoughts on thinking”Submitted Dracula's Biggest Mistake as a story · 113 points
HN discussionTwitter is awful for longform, but it's where the eyeballs are. https://blog.ayjay.org/thread/
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on “Show HN: Write-Only Interface for Twitter”Submitted Work at the edge of your range as a story · 80 points
HN discussionUnless someone shows up who'll defend BenOp, I'm not looking further into it. As far as cursory surfing reveals (I have only been able to find a table of contents online whose chapter headings are not helpful) not only does Dreher not bother with the separatism of plain religions in the US, nor the experiences of other more heavily persecuted, more melaninly enabled, christian churches in the US, his doctrine doesn'…
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on “Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes”Submitted A Plea to Journalists as a story · 10 points
HN discussionFrom: https://blog.ayjay.org/re-reading-2/ "I have to think that “Against Rereading,” by Oscar Schwartz, is a massive troll, because the alternative — that Schwartz believes himself to be so omnicompetent a reader, so perfect in his perception, so masterful in his judgment, that he absorbs all that even the greatest book has to offer with a single reading — is unpleasant to contemplate. Or maybe there’s one more pos…
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on “Against Rereading”Submitted The Attention Cottage as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.ayjay.org/the-homebound-symphony/ "My task, as I now conceive it, is not to engage in critique but rather to bear a small light and keep it burning for the next generation and maybe the generation after that. I want to find what is wise and good and beautiful and true and pass along to my readers as much of it as I can, in a form that will be accessible and comprehensible to them."
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on “A newfound discomfort with hypertext”Submitted POS, Not Posse as a story · 4 points
HN discussionRead...Autocomplete: Coming to terms with our new textual culture https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/autocomple... and https://blog.ayjay.org/the-media-ecology-of-college-writing/
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on “The end of the high school essay”Submitted Useful Thinkers in Three Kinds as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Motion and Machine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Due Diligence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mind Donation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moses the Roadgiver as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teachers at the Margins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Attention Cottage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Three Paths of Micro.Blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design Amnesia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cui Bono? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who's Counting? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Periodicity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'Once Were Brothers' as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Technologies and Trust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twits as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of Taipa as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to read stuff posted online as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tim Cook’s Master Plan as a story · 1 points
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