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Ze Frank
Personal blog · zefrank.comculturewriting
Ze Frank writes Index of /, a personal blog at zefrank.com about culture and writing. Since 2008, 48 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “"If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute."”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 6 of 37 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ze Frank's zefrank.com pages, mainly his 2006 video show, for its 'brain crack' idea about unexecuted ideas and for nostalgia for his early web projects.
- Recommended for · 6 comments
- Called 'great stuff' and a 'favorite episode'; 'really nails' unexecuted ideas; 'genius'; 'always liked' his brand definition.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 37 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- "If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute."11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2008-03-17
- Brain Crack2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-07-21
- /thewiki/the_show:_07-14-062 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-20
- /youngmenowme/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-17
- /sandwich/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-01
- Ze Frank is hiring for a new startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-02
- Ze Frank Returns (Again)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-06
- /theshow/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-22
What Hacker News says?
Then there is Ze Frank's classic trilogy: http://www.zefrank.com/christian/ http://www.zefrank.com/buddhist/ http://www.zefrank.com/atheist/
Comment linking /atheist/
on “Snakisms”Submitted "If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute." as a story · 120 points
HN discussionReminds me of all the great stuff zefrank made back in the day http://www.zefrank.com/ although much of it lost(?) in old Adobe Flash tech. .. and new stuff today https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOHbM4GGWADc5bZgvbivv...
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on “Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website”Submitted Ze Frank is hiring for a new startup as a story · 60 points
HN discussion"quite creative" I know this blurs on the internet, as everyone sees different content, but in the last year I've seen at least 3-4 projects with the exact same premise; most importantly, Irina Werning's. Maybe this is the first that HN readers are seeing. http://irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/ http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/ http://www.kontraband.com/pics/21738/Childhood-Pictures-Repo... h…
Comment linking /lmld/
on “Back to the Future Photo Project (NSFW)”Submitted There is a certain inevitability to life. as a story · 59 points
HN discussionWhile not professionally done (and some done much better than others), this is quite similar to 'Young me, Now me': http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/
Comment linking /youngmenowme/
on “Back to the Future Photo Project (NSFW)”Submitted Brain Crack as a story · 8 points
HN discussionTo be more exact: Duckies! See: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/
Comment linking /theshow/
on “Arrakis”Submitted The history of the animated gif as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA reminder I find useful: Code, not anger. Find yourself annoyed about something "unfair?" Focus on a problem you can actually fix instead. If you find yourself upset about kids who went to a $40k/year private high school winning the world, just re-focus your attention on what you can do now. Code. Fix. Help a real person. Get out of your own head for a while. Success and growth are fueled by output. Running circles…
Comment linking /theshow/whipass/
on “Avoiding Depression While Not Running a $1B Company”Submitted Ze Frank: Ideas are Brain Crack (2006) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of my favorite episode of the show with zefrank. http://www.zefrank.com/thewiki/the_show:_07-14-06
Comment linking /thewiki/the_show:_07-14-06
on “Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996”Submitted How to hire a good Web Developer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI love geographic puzzles such as this one. Here are links to some other interesting ones. Longest straight lines of sight, modulo some atmospheric refraction (has been discussed on HN before): https://beyondhorizons.eu/lines-of-sight/ Furthest points from the sea/land: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility Latitude and longitude integer degree intersections around the world: http://confluence.org/ T…
Comment linking /sandwich/
on “Finding the longest straight line you could sail without hitting land”Submitted Ze Frank Returns (Again) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI also fondly remember "The Show with Ze Frank" from back in 2006: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvL6NITEozY (sadly the frame-rate in this reupload is messed up)
Comment linking /theshow/
on “Ten years on, revisiting YouTube’s first viral sensation”Submitted Steve jobs: first tv interview prep as a story · 1 points
HN discussionZe Frank said it better in Braincrack - http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/replay/?p=363
Comment linking /theshow/replay/?p=363
on “The problem with having great ideas”Submitted The future of games and reality and weirdness and points and things like that as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWould be nice if it linked to Ze Frank's Chillout Song: http://www.zefrank.com/chillout/
Comment linking /chillout/
on “The magic button — Make Everything OK”Submitted Most popular shows by Ze Frank as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere is the http://ideaaday.org/ site. You can comment the ideas. Knowing that there are a million ideas out there keeps me off the brain crack. http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html
Comment linking /theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html
on “1,000 (bad) ideas”Submitted Digital natives. ... generation that has been at war with DRM and copyright ... as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhen he blinks, his left nostril dilates, and that bothers him, so he cuts the videos so it doesn't happen. He describes it in this video: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/05/051006.html
Comment linking /theshow/archives/2006/05/051006.html
on “"If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute."”Submitted Want to try something hard? Voice drawing.... as a story · 1 points
HN discussionZe Frank made an interesting comment related to this: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/12/121906.html
Comment linking /theshow/archives/2006/12/121906.html
on “Solo founders: how do you stay emotionally efficient?”Submitted Setting Expectations for Contribution Based Projects (Part 1 ) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of Ze Frank's Ugly MySpace pages. He used to tease creators of "ugly" MySpace pages during his show. When someone called him out on it, he had this to say about it: "For a very long time, taste and artistic training have been things that only a small number of people have been able to develop. Only a few people could afford to participate in the production of many types of media. Raw materials like p…
Comment linking /thewiki/the_show:_07-14-06
on “AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race”Submitted Communication skills. as a story · 1 points
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