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Wayne Chen
Personal blog · supplychenmanagement.comcultureproductivity
Wayne Chen writes Supply Chen Management, a personal blog at supplychenmanagement.com about culture and productivity. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “How Has the Average House Size Changed?”. The last post was in 2021, 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 this blog for data on how US home size has changed over time. Commenters cite it as a source on average house size and floor area per person since the 1950s and 1960s.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- How Has the Average House Size Changed?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-19
What Hacker News says?
It depends on how far you want to go back for comparison. The average house size has grown a lot since the 1960s, but dropped some more recently since the housing crisis. But it’s still up, and by a pretty big margin. In the 1950s, the average house was < 1k sqft, today it’s pushing 2.5x that. It’s even larger when computed on a per-person basis. Census and Statista have some data but this shows a decent chart: http…
Comment linking /2018/07/15/average-house-size/
on “U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter”Submitted How Has the Average House Size Changed? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>You would like a home from 1969 The average floor area per person (in the US) has roughly doubled since 1969. Not the most reliable source, but from skimming census data it seems to correlate: https://supplychenmanagement.com/2018/07/15/average-house-si... . I'm personally not much a fan of large houses, but most people are.
Comment linking /2018/07/15/average-house-size/
on “AI Isn’t Good Enough”