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In Over Your Head
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In Over Your Head is a personal blog at inoveryourhead.net about culture and business. Since 2010, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “The Complete Guide to Not Giving a F**k”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Julien Smith's posts, including 'Things I Should Have Known at 20' and 'The complete guide to not giving a fuck', which are about self-improvement and life advice. Comments mostly name or discuss them.
- Recommended for · 3 comments
- One commenter liked the 'Things I Should Have Known at 20' post; another named 'the complete guide to not giving a fuck' among inspirational posts; another call
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
social capital, trust agents, all that jazz
Most-linked posts?
- The Complete Guide to Not Giving a F**k5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-04-26
- Things I Should Have Known at 204 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-05-29
- The Short and Sweet Guide to Being F*cking Awesome3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-01-25
- New startup launches. Grandiose marketing? Check. See: "What is Breather?"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-05
- Lessons I Learned Reading Over 200 Books2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-23
- How To Recognize an Idiot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-29
- Maybe you should just stop being a f$#@*& P*&%$2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-03
- The Simple Guide to Growing Some #$%ing Balls2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-06
What Hacker News says?
The OP link now leads to a different blog post. This seems to be the listed post: http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-2...
Comment linking /20-things-i-should-have-known-at-20/
on “Things I Should Have Known at 20”Submitted Things I Should Have Known at 20 as a story · 418 points
HN discussionLiked it, but he kind of goes against himself: "Otherwise known as morons on the internet telling me about the world like they know better. God, these people are unbelievable" http://inoveryourhead.net/how-to-recognize-an-idiot/ ops..
Comment linking /how-to-recognize-an-idiot/
on “Things I Should Have Known at 20”Submitted Things I Should Have Known at 20 as a story · 31 points
HN discussionThis isn’t a permalink, and it took me forever to find one (neither title nor date are permalinks? conventions mean nothing?) Submission URL should be changed to: http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-2...
Comment linking /20-things-i-should-have-known-at-20/
on “Things I Should Have Known at 20”Submitted The Complete Guide to Not Giving a F**k as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSeems nice, though a bit slow. When copying quotes it would be even nicer if you could keep the formatting from the website. Bold text, lists etc. should be preserved when presented on your site. I thought the screenshot feature could have been a useful alternative, but for certain pages it doesn't really work: http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-2... - I'm not sure it can be solved in general…
Comment linking /20-things-i-should-have-known-at-20/
on “Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.”Submitted The Short and Sweet Guide to Being F*cking Awesome as a story · 12 points
HN discussionthe complete guide to not giving a fuck http://inoveryourhead.net/the-complete-guide-to-not-giving-a...
Comment linking /the-complete-guide-to-not-giving-a-fuck/
on “Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?”Submitted The complete guide to not giving a f*#k as a story · 8 points
HN discussionZeitgeisty at the moment: "being awesome" See also: This blog post by Julien Smith "The Short and Sweet Guide to Being Fucking Awesome" (2011) http://inoveryourhead.net/the-short-and-sweet-guide-to-being... and also the free kindle book "The Flinch" (late 2011) http://www.amazon.com/The-Flinch-ebook/dp/B0062Q7S3S/ref=sr_... I do think its good to overcome the shortcomings hamstringing your happiness. Still; There is…
Comment linking /the-short-and-sweet-guide-to-being-fucking-awesome/
on “How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead”Submitted Maybe you should just stop being a f$#@*& P*&%$ as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe click-through is the real source of info: http://inoveryourhead.net/maybe-you-should-just-stop-being-a...
Comment linking /maybe-you-should-just-stop-being-a-fucking-pussy/
on “If I hear one more entrepreneur complain I’m going to puke”Submitted The Simple Guide to Growing Some #$%ing Balls as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA new startup by Julien Smith. I've talked to him about this, it sounds like a necessary idea. Relaxing spaces to rent for work or rest, across North America. From what I've seen so far, his execution is good. Julien's the co-author of Trust Agents and author of Flinch. Launching a startup was not an obvious move for him as a non-technical solo founder, but he's a very perceptive, creative guy. I think this one's wo…
Comment linking /what-is-breather/
on “Breather raises 1.5 million in seed round”Submitted Sleep is awesome as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 9 Ideas About the Future as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cultural Transparency ÷ Risk = Upward Mobility as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I Changed To Present Like Steve Jobs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Major Drives: Happiness And Duty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Simple Guide to Growing Some #$%ing Balls as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The complete guide to not giving a fk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Quick Thought About Anti-Social Douchebags as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Should Quit the Internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The short guide to being f**king awesome. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted All social media experts "are actually the same person" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let the Idea Free as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Privatization of Culture and the Illusion of Depth as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where the Poor Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New startup launches. Grandiose marketing? Check. See: "What is Breather?" as a story · 1 points
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