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Tim Casasola
Personal blog · timcasasola.com/blogcareerdesign
Tim Casasola's personal blog at timcasasola.com covers career and design. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Why does writing matter in remote work?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for writing advice. The one comment quotes Gary Provost's advice on varying sentence length to keep prose from sounding monotonous.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I’m a product & org change geek.
Most-linked posts?
- Why does writing matter in remote work?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-04
What Hacker News says?
Some advice from Gary Provost, author of "Make Every Word Count". “This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings.…
Comment linking /blog/writing
on “How We Write”Submitted Why does writing matter in remote work? as a story · 234 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should product managers learn design? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion