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The Organizational Plumber

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The Organizational Plumber is a personal blog at theorgplumber.com about career and business. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2025

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link The Organizational Plumber's post mortem and statement on the Gino case. Comments cite it as the actual post mortem and as the story of the dissertation dispute.

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?

  1. A Post Mortem on the Gino Case
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-10-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. (Re)-Read their story[1]-- they were fighting to publish the refutation as the first chapter of their dissertation . They wanted to publish no matter what. Given that, choose your sword: 1. Grad Sword that must be approved by a dissertation committee 2. Master (well, PhD) Sword where you choose your own adventure If you reply #1 then I'm logged in to a fake HN site. 1: https://www.theorgplumber.com/posts/statement/

    Comment linking /posts/statement/

    on “A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”
  2. Submitted A Post Mortem on the Gino Case as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. Better link (the actual post mortem): https://www.theorgplumber.com/posts/statement/

    Comment linking /posts/statement/

    on “A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”
  4. Submitted A Post Mortem on the Gino Case as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A Post Mortem on the Gino Case as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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