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Tyler Berbert

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Tyler Berbert's personal blog at tylerberbert.substack.com covers philosophy and culture. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Cooperation, Survival, Open Source, and Decriminalizing Caring”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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45mentions?
3HN people?
2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this Substack in reply to a question about whether tech has always been scammy, offering it as an answer. The only comment says "In short, no" and gives no view on the writing itself.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Cooperation, Survival, Open Source, and Decriminalizing Caring
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-12-20
  2. Why Breaks Mean Breakthroughs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. For those curious about what this looks like in the trenches: https://tylerberbert.substack.com/p/complexity

    Comment linking /p/complexity

    on “The collapse of complex software”
  2. Submitted Cancel culture, conservative victimhood, and the paradox of tolerance as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  3. Wrote about this several months ago, and specifically the vastly larger scale on which corporations do it: https://tylerberbert.substack.com/p/cooperation

    Comment linking /p/cooperation

    on “Don't be that open-source user, don't be me”
  4. Submitted Why millennials are angsty: A software engineer’s perspective as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Good stuff, very to-the-point. For the curious, I just wrote ( https://tylerberbert.substack.com/p/breaks ) about why rotating task types can have the added benefit of generating helpful ideas and insights about prior tasks.

    Comment linking /p/breaks

    on “When feeling worn out, rotate”
  6. Submitted Cooperation, Survival, Open Source, and Decriminalizing Caring as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. In short, no. https://tylerberbert.substack.com/p/cooperation

    Comment linking /p/cooperation

    on “Ask HN: Was tech always so scammy?”
  8. Submitted End a Pandemic with This One Weird Trick: On Modern Mobs Making Modern Decisions as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Neuropolitics of Burnout as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Remote work discourse in 90 seconds as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Why Breaks Mean Breakthroughs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Cognitive Clutter as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted The donkey that wouldn't move as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The Unicorn Tax: You can pay it in dollars, Bitcoin, or gallbladders as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Why "Build Something" Is Good But Incomplete Advice For Learning as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Take a Break from Doing Nothing, and Do Less as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Mental illness, globalism, and the story that links them as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted “Cooperation Was Our Way of Life”: Free Software and the Indigenous Critique as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted The Meaning of Meaningful Work as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Reopening closed tabs, “direction brain,“ and depoliticizing science as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Russell's Teapot and Reclaiming Truth as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Sense journaling: a homebrewed way to improve episodic memory as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Rage, rage, rage: transference and Zizek on accelerationism as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Task shadows: not your grandpa’s task inertia as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Le deluge: a story about AI in two parts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Fumes in Abstract Spaces as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted The Mold Cult as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Alleviating Symptoms, Causing Problems as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Unrealpolitik and multicultural resistance in sci-fi as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Comfort, joy, and the ‘woke mind virus’ as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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