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Re: Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

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Post by eric_cc »

bayonetz wrote: post #57
flipactual wrote: post #13

ribbonfarm - a longform blog devoted to unusual takes on both familiar and new themes. What we call “refactored perception.” https://www.ribbonfarm.com/ meaningness - Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value. https://meaningness.com/ Whereas sites like SSC and LessWrong are rationalist, both of these suggestions are predo…

Meaningness is great. Thanks for that. Such deep concepts expressed so clearly with so few words.

> It is easy to fall into nihilism..... but, fortunately, it is difficult to maintain, and hardly anyone holds it for long.

I guess I'm one of the few :\

Re: Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

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Post by MperorM »

smallcharleston wrote: post #62
jauke wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why?

Some vague feeling that if it were useful, correct, refined, and thought-out enough it would be in a book or periodical.

Hmm, I see it somewhat oppositely. I find that most books are bloated and spend most pages regurgitating information I already know, where blog posts tend to present only the novel information, using hyperlinks to link to information required to understand the given post.

If I know nothing about a topic I find books to be really valuable, but for topics I'm already knowledgeable on, they are terribly inefficient.

Re: Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

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Post by hispanic »

https://www.marksdailyapple.com/ - Ancestral health and lifestyle

https://earlyretirementextreme.com/ - Financial independence. No longer adding new posts.

https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/ - Travel "hacking" and the miles and points "game".

https://jamesclear.com/newsletter - Habits and human potential. Email newsletter - not a blog, per se.

https://blog.asmartbear.com/ - Startups and marketing

https://recraigslist.com/ - Appliance repair and entrepreneurship. No longer adding new posts.

Re: Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

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Post by johnmorrison »

wyclif wrote: post #51
johnmorrison wrote: post #15

These are my two favorite blogs of Q4`19: Pat Collison [1] (Co-founder, CEO Stripe) doesn't blog often, but is one of the most interesting and insightful people I have ever read I don't know much about Alexey Guzey [2] yet, but he also has some very good posts (he writes more often and more long form, and is more similar to Gwern and SSC, in part because I think those two blogs have influenced him heavily) [1] https:…

It's a shame neither of those blogs provide RSS. I'm not sure why. It's a trivial thing to do for your readers.

I don't have RSS on my blog either, whoops

Re: Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

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Post by rosetrees »

npr11 wrote: post #8

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