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Tobi Lutke
Personal blog · tobi.lutke.com/blogs/newsstartupsbusinesscareer
Tobi Lutke writes Too-biased, a personal blog at tobi.lutke.com about startups, business and career. Since 2013, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The Apprentice Programmer (2013)”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Tobi Lutke's post on his German apprenticeship and how he got into computing, as a reference for paid, school-linked training and for his career path.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Apprentice Programmer (2013)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-10-17
- Pick your compass metric2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-21
What Hacker News says?
> get a few interns Pretty much agree, but not sure Internships are the best way to do it. Expecting people to work for no pay means you only get those that can afford to work for no pay. I remember an article on HN from few years ago, about the German apprentice system. Paid work, coupled with college education. https://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-pr... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=531…
Comment linking /blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-programmer
on “You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes”Submitted The Apprentice Programmer as a story · 408 points
HN discussionSurprising. Tobi Lutke, Shopify CEO, does use hacker news [0]. May be he reads this and elects to respond, like he's done before [1]. Given his profile, he doesn't come off as someone who'd make or approve of such decisions [2]. -- [0] xal [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10549279 [2] https://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280225-good-at-making-de...
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on “Why Mailchimp is no longer in the Shopify App Store”Submitted The Apprentice Programmer (2013) as a story · 105 points
HN discussionShopify's founder wrote an interesting article on his experience apprenticing in Germany: http://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-pro...
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on “Why Germany Is Better at Training Its Workers”Submitted Good at making decisions as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTobi Lütke of Spotify - http://tobi.lutke.com/ Dalton Caldwell of App.net - http://daltoncaldwell.com/ Suhail Doshi of Mixpanel - http://sufficientlyadvanced.net/ Jack Groetzinger of SeatGeek - http://jackg.org/ Eric Koester of Zaarly - http://ekoester.com/
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on “Few successful entrepreneurs blog”Submitted Canadians have a lot to be proud of: Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere is a nice article written by Lütke himself about how he got into computers and how his then boss Jürgen was probably the most important thing that happened to him in his professional life. http://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-pro... Really enjoyed reading this piece. I can partly see myself in his story except all the achievements. We'll see.
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on “Shopify to raise $100M in Toronto, New York IPO”Submitted Pick your compass metric as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIsn't this what they do in Germany? http://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-pro...
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on “Hire Literally Anyone”Submitted We need to talk about carbon (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionReminds me of Shopify's Tobias Lutke– also German, also took an off-beaten path. I transcribed a Keynote that tobi once did.[1] Let me dig up the relevant bit: > Within my little world, within this school, the most obvious/profound thought I had was that I needed Air Jordan sneakers to be part of the popular kids. > That seems really silly from the perspective of adults. I was lucky- I got out of school (you can lea…
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on “Peter Thiel's Dropout Club”Submitted In support of free speech (Update) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tobi Lütke: The Apprentice Programmer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pick your compass metric as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pick your compass metric as a story · 1 points
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