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Tom Cleveland
Personal blog · blog.tjcx.mehealthculture
Tom Cleveland writes TJCX, a personal blog at blog.tjcx.me about health and culture. Since 2021, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Consume Less, Create More”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link TJCX's posts on consuming less and creating more, a startup idea, New York Times headline A/B testing, and Google's health information. One commenter names the consume-less post as inspiring.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mostly an exploration of consumer health information. Sometimes just a journal with extra steps.
Most-linked posts?
- Consume Less, Create More5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-08-19
- I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-21
- Investigating how the New York Times A/B tests their headlines3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-10
- Tracking the front page of the New York Times2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-25
- Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-27
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.tjcx.me/p/consume-less-create-more This article inspired me on two things : 1) Lots of the things I do in everyday life is just to consume: buying, watching, following, etc. These things either consume my money, or my time. These things make me feel good, but it does not generate real value. In order to get rich, I need to create things. I also start to realize that great people are great because they s…
Comment linking /p/consume-less-create-more
on “Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?”Submitted I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020) as a story · 603 points
HN discussionYou mean like this https://blog.tjcx.me/p/40k-fantastic-startup-idea ?
Comment linking /p/40k-fantastic-startup-idea
on “Ask HN: Software with biggest potential for positive impact in 5 years?”Submitted Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments as a story · 439 points
HN discussionThe above commenter mentioned censorship. Regardless, the usage of algorithms doesn't mean there's a different set of rules the government can use to regulate it. The incentives you mentioned aren't limited to social media. Traditional media also has these same incentives, and tunes their headlines to be more sensational and attention grabbing. For example: https://blog.tjcx.me/p/new-york-times-ab-testing HN discuss…
Comment linking /p/new-york-times-ab-testing
on “Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Facebook, Instagram”Submitted What would a “good” WebMD look like? as a story · 305 points
HN discussionWell, the link is broken but I assume OP meant to link to: https://blog.tjcx.me/p/google-terrible-health-information Funny how there can be a discussion about the content when the link is invalid. That together with the "SEO is destroying the internet" article lets me think of karma whoring...
Comment linking /p/google-terrible-health-information
on “Lasers and the sad state of online health information”Submitted Investigating how the New York Times A/B tests their headlines as a story · 248 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lasers and the sad state of online health information as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Medical communication is bad–how can we fix it? as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consume Less, Create More as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Physician Reference for 2023 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consume Less, Create More as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lasers and the sad state of online health information as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea – When good ideas make bad business as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consume less, create more (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consume Less, Create More as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracking the front page of the New York Times as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How The New York Times A/B tests their headlines as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing NYT front page turnover as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Read Self-Help as a story · 1 points
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