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Tony Carr
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Tony Carr writes The Radar, a personal blog at radarblog.substack.com about politics and career. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Falling Down? Amazon is in a deeper hole than it represents and is still digging”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on Amazon's return-to-office policy for disabled employees. The comment quotes the post on Amazon's Seattle headquarters spending and loan refinancing as background for a theory about RTO.
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.
TC is an American/British writer, veteran, combat pilot, Fortune 100 operations director, and lawyer. This newsletter features regular essays and war stories on various subjects, mainly organizational leadership and military affairs. with
Most-linked posts?
- Falling Down? Amazon is in a deeper hole than it represents and is still digging2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-02
What Hacker News says?
My favorite recently acquired pet theory about the amazon RTO is that it's driven by real estate occupancy rates in their incredibly expensive new hub offices, several of which also received massive government tax grants with strings attached(0): > "Now consider that Amazon spent $4-5B to build its two headquarters buildings in Seattle in 2015/16. Almost certainly it will need to refinance those loans in the next co…
Comment linking /p/falling-down
on “Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home”Submitted Maybe This Is Too Cool as a story · 127 points
HN discussionSubmitted Falling Down? Amazon is in a deeper hole than it represents and is still digging as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Military Services Don't Care About Suicide as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fun Trap as a story · 4 points
HN discussion