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Patrick Collison
Personal blog · patrickcollison.com/blogstartupsscience
Patrick Collison's personal blog at patrickcollison.com covers startups and science. Since 2012, 114 different Hacker News readers have linked it 128 times, most often “Fast”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 9 of 39 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Patrick Collison's site mostly for the /fast page of historical projects done quickly, and for his /bookshelf of books. Commenters also cite /pollution, /advice and /questions.
- Recommended for · 9 comments
- Called the /fast list 'great' and 'inspiring', the bookshelf a 'cool reading list', and the posts 'love these'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 39 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Fast44 people · 51 mentions · first linked 2019-05-07
- Patrick Collison's Bookshelf19 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2016-11-27
- Advice11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2018-07-05
- Questions6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-07-05
- The cognitive costs of air pollution5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-11-18
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-08-02
- Could Stripe have been started in Ireland?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-12-05
- Startup surprises2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-18
- People2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-28
- Patrick Collison on solar2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-13
What Hacker News says?
For inspiration in this direction see Patrick Collison's great list: https://patrickcollison.com/fast
Comment linking /fast
on “Fast”Submitted Fast as a story · 1314 points
HN discussion'pc proclaims that San Francisco is the best city in the world elsewhere on his site. Your critique has a tinge of irony to it. https://patrickcollison.com/advice
Comment linking /advice
on “Fast”Submitted Questions as a story · 1106 points
HN discussionBased on that last entry about the SF bus line, I would really love to see https://patrickcollison.com/slow
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on “Fast”Submitted The cognitive costs of air pollution as a story · 1020 points
HN discussionThis is blogspam. Here's the original post: https://patrickcollison.com/pollution
Comment linking /pollution
on “The cognitive costs of air pollution”Submitted Patrick Collison's Questions as a story · 374 points
HN discussionThe point of https://patrickcollison.com/fast is not that everything has to be fast, but that you can probably do it faster than you think. Quoting https://nat.org/ : "time is the denominator"
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on “Slow”Submitted Advice as a story · 217 points
HN discussionFrom TFA > This page is a riff on Patrick Collison's list of /fast projects. Maybe as a HN post, but the blog is in response to https://patrickcollison.com/fast
Comment linking /fast
on “Slow”Submitted Fast (2019) as a story · 189 points
HN discussionJust to add to that, it does link to https://patrickcollison.com/fast (which has 300 comments from 2019 on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21848860 ) which is different than yesterday's link to https://www.catherinejue.com/fast (426 comments as of now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736967 )
Comment linking /fast
on “Slow”Submitted Patrick Collison's Bookshelf as a story · 148 points
HN discussionPatrick Collison, the CEO & co-founder of stripe. His profile mentions his personal website: http://patrickcollison.com .
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on “Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo”Submitted Lisp Machines as a story · 141 points
HN discussionI'm a fan of naked-feeling 2000s sites. https://patrickcollison.com/ https://tomual.com/ http://halvor.work/
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on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”Submitted Government and the Internet as a story · 120 points
HN discussionI always found this question pretty impossible to answer. There are so many books that i find myself wanting to recommend, and the list soon becomes unmanageable. So, instead i'm going to provide a different resource - Patrick collisons whole library. He color coats the books he thinks are great, and lists hundreds of books. https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf
Comment linking /bookshelf
on “Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?”Submitted Fast (2019) as a story · 93 points
HN discussionTesla has some blame in this for sure but Caltrans (maintainers of the 101) are equally if not more to blame. California is rich in capital but so poor infrastructure. Moving here from South Carolina(where taxes are much lower and roads are paltry) I was shocked at how dismal a state many of the roads are and at the sheer amount of time it takes to complete. Patrick Collison of Stripe actually wrote a blog piece(1)…
Comment linking /fast
on “Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot”Submitted Silicon Valley History as a story · 85 points
HN discussionAs far as I've understood it, the whole COVID-19 vaccine research has been going at a breakneck speed. First vaccine batches were made back in February. https://patrickcollison.com/fast
Comment linking /fast
on “Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK”Submitted Patrick Collison: Could Stripe have been started in Ireland? as a story · 81 points
HN discussionCool question! Patrick Collison (of stripe fame) put together a collection of historical ambitious projects that got done quickly, look into the biographies of people mentioned in there. https://patrickcollison.com/fast
Comment linking /fast
on “Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things”Submitted Air pollution is a big deal as a story · 62 points
HN discussionAssuming this question is made in good faith: air pollution as generated from coal and methane ("natural gas") is really bad and much worse than previously realized: https://patrickcollison.com/pollution . The literature on it is credible: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/12/wh... Nuclear produces no air pollution. It produces no direct greenhouse gases. The actual amount of centuries-long wast…
Comment linking /pollution
on “Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy”Submitted Fast as a story · 61 points
HN discussionOne thing I find amusing is that Stripe's CEO's webpage is a lot closer to Sourcehut in design than Stripe: https://patrickcollison.com/
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on “How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)”Submitted People as a story · 35 points
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