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by bwb 3y ago
Thank you :) This is the first year I've done this, and I was surprised at how widely authors reads. I had expected authors to read wider than most readers but visualizing it still surprised me. I've still got ~250 authors votes t
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by bwb 3y ago
This is my first year to do this, so I was very curious how many people read the classics versus new books within genres like sci-fi. I've been surprised how widely authors read, but that was my hope as I think they naturally read a lo
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by bwb 3y ago
Ditto here, it was my favorite of 2022, and I loved it. I can't wait for what he writes next.
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by bwb 3y ago
Yep, that is 100% my fault. I will fix that in the next 48 hours. I ran out of time and totally missed that I had done that.
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by bwb 3y ago
Yep, I am sorry, I also use tabs this way and I just ran out of time this year. I made the mistake of doing my user testing on a small non tech crowd who doesn't do that so I just missed it :(
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by bwb 3y ago
> 1. Use links, when there’s a list Yep, this is on my list to do for next year. I just ran out of time to do that this year (this is the first year I've done this). I will also rethink what data I show for 2024 as I want to better
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by bwb 3y ago
Wow this is super cool! Do you plan to add discussion?
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Show HN: Crunching 1,200 Authors' Favorite Reads of 2023(shepherd.com)
149 points by bwb 3y ago|76 comments
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by bwb 3y ago
This is one of my favorite lists we've gotten from an author, it is from Paul E. Smaldino who is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also the author of a book on modeling social behavior that is fascinating!
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My favorite books about human behavior that reward working through the math(shepherd.com)
1 points by bwb 3y ago|1 comments
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by bwb 3y ago
Np! Sequel due in 2 months too :)
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Only Apple Can Take on Google in Search(aisupremacy.substack.com)
1 points by bwb 3y ago|0 comments
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by bwb 3y ago
My favorite 3 of the year: Tom Swan and the Head of St George (By Christian Cameron) I fell in love with the lead character, who is like a 15th-century Indiana Jones wandering the Mediterranean and getting into trouble. He bumps into key hi
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Show HN: Shepherd – I asked 1,201 authors for their 3 favorite reads in 2023(shepherd.com)
9 points by bwb 3y ago|1 comments
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by bwb 3y ago
The article makes the point that I also agree with, most people buy books because someone loved it and told them about it with passion. And then a small number of "book people" actively seek out books like it is an adventure, and
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by bwb 3y ago
Hopefully you can see how the chasm between those two things is like the Grand Canyon :) I love "the confidence" as I think that is what makes a great entrepreneur who says something like "Oh that is easy, I can do that"
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by bwb 3y ago
Congrats?
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by bwb 3y ago
What they are doing is working great... not sure why you would say that. They are the most popular platform, fantastic services and adding more, and easy to pay to remove ads for a reasonable amount of money. Their model is working great fr
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by bwb 3y ago
Might not work here, we are not on the inside so can't see.
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by bwb 3y ago
Sigh, almost nothing can survive without money to pay for it. Either through donations, some type of business model, etc. My day to day "job" is something for the public good and I do it without getting paid for it. But it still h
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by bwb 3y ago
Ads pay for everything online? How else do you pay for everything unless you pay them directly??
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by bwb 3y ago
Ive been using it for around 40 days to test. So far i like it, i do not notice much difference versus google in general. But i also got to bump quality sites in my niche up the listings (and reddit). So far i dig it
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by bwb 3y ago
Google entirely makes money on curation :), that is what they do. Curate and organize the web. They also sub in their own product links everywhere. The creator of this project threw in some referral links, but he didn't replace them. A
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by bwb 3y ago
Well said. She had a really unique view of the world, I appreciated it, and it definitely helped me develop my own view of the world. I am about to read the Upanishads along a similar line of thought.
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by bwb 3y ago
I find it hilarious that you would say this when you used to work for Google :) All Google does is hijack other people's hard-written content and slap ads around it. I am half-kidding, as I love Google, but I think your comment lacks s
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by bwb 3y ago
And to add, it also is a HUGE help to authors. There is a huge problem in the book industry with"winner takes all" within Amazon and other big book websites. It means we as readers are getting less and less exposed to books that w
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by bwb 3y ago
So you can illegally steal from authors? What is wrong with you?
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by bwb 3y ago
The author did a lot of work and analysis to build this. This is not easy to do and I've found that people doing anything with books are doing it for passion, not money. Background: I run hackernewsbooks.com, and the only thing affilia
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by bwb 3y ago
I love Ayn Rand, but not for the weird cult thing it grew into. To me, it is the story of someone trying to create cool stuff and the world making that hard (felt like a celebration of human creativity). She is brutalistic in her messaging
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Ask HN: Want to meet your fellow HNers via email?
1 points by bwb 3y ago|0 comments

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