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Thomas Backlund

Personal blog · thomasbacklund.com/blogstartupscareerculture

Thomas Backlund's personal blog at thomasbacklund.com covers startups, career and culture. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5HN people?
2013–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Thomas Backlund's blog for posts about a coder living in a tent in the forest and pursuing an entrepreneurial path, including a early post on lean startup tools and mobile broadband.

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?

  1. In his first post ( http://thomasbacklund.com/2013/03/lean-startup/ ) he mentions some of the tools he's bringing with him. This includes mobile broadband.

    Comment linking /2013/03/lean-startup/

    on “The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest”
  2. Submitted The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest as a story · 170 points

    HN discussion
  3. How do you go from basic via 6 years of working to 2023? Regardless, start your own company, luckily you're in the right place. edit: or do like my friend and code in the forrest :) https://thomasbacklund.com/blog/index.html

    Comment linking /blog/index.html

    on “Programming as a Career Isn't Right for Me”
  4. Submitted Humanity First Ultramarathon (140 Km in Japan) in Support of Yang2020 and UBI as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Entrepreneurial adventures of homeless coder living in a tent in the forest as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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