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Thomas J Bevan
Personal blog · thomasjbevan.substack.com · on HN as thomasjbevanwritingculture
Thomas J Bevan's personal blog at thomasjbevan.substack.com covers writing and culture. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “On Silence and the Inner Voice”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Thomas J Bevan's Substack for "All news is bad news", which one commenter recommends as advice to stop reading the news unless it is useful a year later. Other commenters link it as a source.
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.
Fiction.
Most-linked posts?
- On Silence and the Inner Voice2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-15
- No news is good news2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-28
What Hacker News says?
First things first: https://twitter.com/monami060668/status/1510177121590824963 then: https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/all-news-is-bad-news?s=r if you still want to go down the rabbit hole - find out what is going on: ...friends from and in Ukraine. They tell me stories about their families and other people hiding in the undergrounds and basements... this has been going on since 2014 in Ukraine. https://rumble.co…
Comment linking /p/all-news-is-bad-news?s=r
on “Watching the World Wrecking”Submitted No news is good news as a story · 209 points
HN discussionyou are already doing quite well and have savings to wade through any problems. So, relax a bit. Two suggestions: a) Read Matt Ridley's Rational optimist : This shows the arc of progress and provides strong arguments on how our future will be better b) https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/all-news-is-bad-news : Basically asks you not to read the news at all, unless there is something that you can use a year from now.
Comment linking /p/all-news-is-bad-news
on “Ask HN: In these uncertain times, how do you handle anxiousness”Submitted On tea and the art of doing nothing as a story · 112 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Being Broke as a story · 107 points
HN discussionSubmitted Street Bench Zen as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Walking as Inactivity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Silence and the Inner Voice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Losing Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Writing Apps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of the Cool as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recreational Dystopia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Beauty of Everyday Things as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Content versus Art as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Attention, Addiction and Algorithms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Curse of the Eternal Present as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Non Fungible Talent as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Observations on Fasting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ‘Disruption’ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Walk Through the Cemetery as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Transhumanism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Feeling Discouraged as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wall in the Head as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beauty in a World of Brutalism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted La Bella Figura as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tyranny of Numbers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Science and Poetry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On New Year's Resolutions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of the Online Era as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Beauty of Everyday Things as a story · 1 points
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