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Tom Peters
Personal blog · tompeters.com/dispatchesbusinesscareer
Tom Peters's personal blog at tompeters.com covers business and career. Since 2007, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Pursuing the Perfect Project Manager (1991)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tom Peters's dispatches on business and leadership, such as a piece on advice from Jeff Bezos and one on giving a company away to charity. Comments only quote or cite them.
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.
tompeters.com: digital home of business author and speaker Tom Peters. His blog, videos, books, slides, free stuff, and more!
Most-linked posts?
- Pursuing the Perfect Project Manager (1991)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-05
What Hacker News says?
Jason, I found a little bio of you that said, "Jason Fried is the fastest white man you'll ever meet. He has curly hair and a sunny disposition. He loves to travel, play hoops, and watch sunsets from his roof deck. He wishes he could break dance." Is that all true? JF: That was an old bio that someone wrote for me. I guess it's probably all true, except for the break dancing part. I really don't have any desire to d…
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on “Some advice from Jeff Bezos”Submitted Planning is overrated. The best performers seesaw between ideas and actions. as a story · 58 points
HN discussion"At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, 'Yes, but I have something he will never have enough.'" Original source of 'enough' quote in Sivers' essay http://www.tompeters.com/dispatche…
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on “Why I gave away my company to charity”Submitted "Planning" is highly overrated. The best performers seesaw between "ideas" and "actions." as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with Recessionary Times as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Retirement (Tom Peters) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pursuit of Luck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pursuing the Perfect Project Manager (1991) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pursuing the Perfect Project Manager (1991) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Share your love for someone (and, do so before it's too late) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tom Peters Re-imagine Manifesto! as a story · 1 points
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