Top all-time · #11537
TwoShay
Personal blog · two-shay.com/articles · on HN as xaviershayproductivitycareer
TwoShay is a personal blog at two-shay.com about productivity and career. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2011, 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 TwoShay's posts on productivity, including a writeup of Jerry Seinfeld's habits calendar technique and an article on avoiding vague 'bullshit goals'.
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.
What Hacker News says?
TwoShay has a great writeup of this technique: http://www.two-shay.com/articles/habits-calendar
Comment linking /articles/habits-calendar
on “Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret”Submitted Why I Quit A Six Figure Job as a story · 132 points
HN discussion> Get better at design. > Learn a new language. > Do more open source. > Write fewer blog posts. > Focus (utterly failed here) These seem like prime examples of "bullshit goals" [1] that aren't actionable. For goals to be useful they should be quantifiable and accountable. *[1]: http://www.two-shay.com/articles/avoid-bullshit-goals
Comment linking /articles/avoid-bullshit-goals
on “A Developer’s Year in Review”Submitted Quitting A Six Figure Job: One Year Later as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted DBIYF World Tour Retrospective (with numbers) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get Up Early as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Habits Calendar as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Spend Money as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ditching the iPhone as a story · 2 points
HN discussion