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Zohar Atkins
Personal blog · whatiscalledthinking.substack.comphilosophyculture
Zohar Atkins writes What Is Called Thinking?, a personal blog at whatiscalledthinking.substack.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Is Precise Language (Always) Good?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment links a post from this Substack, offering it as an alternative view in the Write Simply thread. The URL slug suggests it argues about whether precise language is good writing.
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.
Philosophy, Religion, and Culture.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Precise Language (Always) Good?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-11
What Hacker News says?
An alternative POV: https://whatiscalledthinking.substack.com/p/is-precise-langu...
Comment linking /p/is-precise-language-always-good
on “Write Simply”Submitted You're enlightened – now what? as a story · 213 points
HN discussionI wrote a full length response to this article here. Basically, I think it raises two questions: 1) what does the socratic mode miss? 2) is it better to have a conversation between two socratic types, or does does socratic dialogue require one dupe? https://whatiscalledthinking.substack.com/p/should-we-aspire...
Comment linking /p/should-we-aspire-to-be-socratic
on “Against Persuasion”Submitted Ruth Is Job ReWritten as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWell deserved and deeply surprising. I just wrote a tribute to her here: https://whatiscalledthinking.substack.com/p/whats-your-story...
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