Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?

Post by gesman » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 12:36 AM UTC

Post by dschiptsov » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 3:53 AM UTC

S4M wrote: post #49

michaelochurch wrote: post #32

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Every time I read something Paul Graham wrote before he became The Godfather I get sad. It may not show in the quality of moderation we see on HN, but he's clearly an extremely talented man.

Yep, and I think the quality of his essays dropped recently. Before he became "The Godfather" his writing was really some out of the box thinking, while the recent ones seem to me almost like an ad to go to SV and get funded by YC to try to build the next Facebook.

Post by christiangenco » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 11:48 PM UTC

JoshTriplett wrote: post #44

christiangenco wrote: post #3

Mr. Money Mustache's account of how he retired at age 30: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-...

I'm a big fan of that blog, but I actually found the most inspirational post on it to be the one that crunched the critical numbers: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim... The key realization from that post: spending less and saving more helps you retire early not just because you're saving faster, but because you need less to retire: your retirement savings only has to support your expenses…

Post by mproenza » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 2:25 PM UTC

stiff wrote: post #9

Mostly not blog posts, but for the last years I tend to revisit the same resources over and over again for inspiration: - "You and your research" by Hamming, and his video lectures which expand on topics in the original talk: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30 - "On teaching mathematics" by V. I. Arnold: http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~muns…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 3:21 PM UTC

callum85 wrote: post #6

Thoreau 2.0 https://static.pinboard.in/xoxo_talk_thoreau.htm