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The Last Psychiatrist
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The Last Psychiatrist is a personal blog at thelastpsychiatrist.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2008, 142 different Hacker News readers have linked it 266 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Sometimes recommended · 15 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Last Psychiatrist for essays on narcissism, self-deception, media and society, and often name it as a favourite blog or rabbit hole.
- Recommended for · 15 comments
- Called excellent, highly entertaining, fascinating and with solid archives; one commenter says to read it to the end.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Psychiatry, media, science, philosophy, war.
Most-linked posts?
- /13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2009-01-30
- /2011/11/luxury_branding_the_future_lea.html6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-11-15
- /2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stamps.html5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-10-05
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-03-14
- /2014/05/cyberbll.html4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-06-28
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-26
- /2012/10/the_story_of_narcissus.html4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-29
- /2013/03/dont_hate_her_because_shes_suc.html4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-03-28
- /2013/05/dove.html4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-05-22
- /2012/09/the_nanny_state_didnt_show_up.html4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-07-16
What Hacker News says?
"Who can say how much Randi Zuckerberg is worth?" " She believes she is worth all her money, she believes she is more than Mark's sister, she believes she has valuable opinions. Anyone who disagrees is a hater. You're just jealous. "No, she's a fool!" Then how come she's so rich? Those who are enraged by her are actually suffering from the same delusion she is [..] The standard criticism of her is that she didn't re…
Comment linking /2014/03/who_can_know_how_much_randi_zu.html
on “No Thank You, Mr. Pecker”Submitted This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach as a story · 275 points
HN discussionThe short story of how, if you're rowing a boat over a river and you hit another boat, you shout at the person in the boat how careless they are and why aren't they paying attention, and you're incensed and annoyed at their stupidity. Then you turn and look, and the other boat is empty and drifting, there isn't anyone in it. I don't think I've ever stopped thinking about that story and how, even if there was someone…
Comment linking /2014/01/randi_zuckerberg.html
on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?”Submitted Where does a tree get its mass? as a story · 176 points
HN discussionPretty much describes The Last Psychiatrist's writings about Narcissism and The Matrix generation. "When the time comes the Universe will make it so I save everyone and know Kung-Fu, because I'm innately a hero so of course it will". https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/03/what_was_the_matrix....
Comment linking /2009/03/what_was_the_matrix.html
on “Not everyone has an internal monologue”- pw · 2009-07-05
Submitted How To Take Ritalin Correctly as a story · 96 points
HN discussion This ought to give you some good pointers: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/10/marc_marons_mid-life...
Comment linking /2011/10/marc_marons_mid-life_crisis.html
on “Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?”Submitted Last Psychiatrist rebuttal to "why parents hate parenting" as a story · 87 points
HN discussionNot sure why you got downvoted. There is an interesting couple of articles on the subject here: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/01/what_would_you_do_if_... http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/02/what_would_you_do_if_...
Comment linking /2012/02/what_would_you_do_if_your_fian_1.html
on “Diamonds Are Bullshit”Submitted The Difference Between An Amateur, A Scientist, And A Genius as a story · 72 points
HN discussionThe Last Psychiatrist, http://thelastpsychiatrist.com . Excellent insights into the ways we lie to ourselves, how we react to the media, and how society operates. I also love ribbonfarm, previously mentioned in the thread.
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on “Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?”Submitted Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors as a story · 51 points
HN discussionRead The Last Psychiatrist blog. "If you're going to pretend to be someone, why not pretend to be someone who doesn't hit on the cocktail waitress when he's away from his family?" Edit: found the exact quote: > "I feel like I am playing a part, that I'm in a role. It doesn't feel real." > Instead of trying to stop playing a role-- again, a move whose aim is your happiness-- try playing a different role whose aim is…
Comment linking /2009/01/can_narcissism_be_cured.html
on “After my dad died, we found the love letters”Submitted The Best Way To Improve Your Creativity as a story · 38 points
HN discussionConsidering the subject matter, could be Alone/The Last Psychiatrist @ https://thelastpsychiatrist.com
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted What iPads Will Do To Your Family as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSounds like it might be The Last Psychiatrist? https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted The Last Psychiatrist: Narcissism Run Rampant as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThis is such a great thread, I'm excited to begin reading quite a few of the linked blogs (such as this one: https://acoup.blog/ ). These ones are some of my favorites: - www.wall.org/~aron/blog/ (physics, theology, history, philosophy) - http://xahlee.info/ (math, emacs, keyboards, etc.) - https://matt.might.net/articles/ (academy, compsci, etc.) - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ (programming, companies, etc.) - ht…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted The Ultimate Explanation of Inception as a story · 11 points
HN discussionNo longer updated, but still full of valuable insights: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted [You, not I, are] killing people on a grand scale as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDid someone say narcissist? May I introduce you to: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
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on “A letter to our daughter”Submitted The Dumbest Generation Is Only The Second Dumbest Generation as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRelevant: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/the_terrible_awful_tr... He argues that the system is "broken" on purpose.
Comment linking /2010/11/the_terrible_awful_truth_about_1.html
on “Unfit for work”Submitted How To Create: Motivation for 2010 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://stevehanov.ca/blog/ -- Updates infrequently. Very good programming articles. http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/ -- Updates infrequently. Good articles on Linux and Programming. Start here: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/best-of http://catonmat.net -- He doesn't update much anymore since he's working on his startup but the archives are still good. Mostly unix tools and CompSci stuff IIRC. http://chneukirchen.or…
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”Submitted "Is 'what constitutes a disease?' something you really want the answer to?" as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> "Successful" has different meanings for different people. Indeed: It's said that most at home traders fail, but this is incorrect: they fail at making money, but they are successful at feeling like a trader. That is the goal; the money is secondary, which is why they fail at making it. — The Last Psychiatrist, http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/03/who_can_know_how_much...
Comment linking /2014/03/who_can_know_how_much_randi_zu.html
on “Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?”Submitted The Most Important Article on Psychiatry You Will Ever Read as a story · 3 points
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