TJ
blog.tjcx.me · Personal blog · on HN since 2021
TJ writes about startups, health information, and data projects, such as tracking New York Times headline tests.
What HN saysCommenters link his posts on a failed $40k startup idea, bad Google health information, and Consume Less, Create More, which one found personally inspiring.
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- 1Consume Less, Create More5 people · 27 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 2I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020)3 people · 608 points · first shared 2021 · 322 comments on HN
- 3Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments3 people · 468 points · first shared 2022 · 424 comments on HN
- 4Investigating how the New York Times A/B tests their headlines3 people · 251 points · first shared 2021 · 120 comments on HN
- 5Tracking the front page of the New York Times2 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 6What would a “good” WebMD look like?1 people · 305 points · first shared 2022 · 312 comments on HN
- 7Medical communication is bad–how can we fix it?1 people · 24 points · first shared 2022 · 2 comments on HN
- 8Building a Physician Reference for 20231 people · 7 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Lasers and the sad state of online health information1 people · 5 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 10How to Read Self-Help1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
xenocratus · 2022-03-28
You mean like this https://blog.tjcx.me/p/40k-fantastic-startup-idea ?
ripitrust · 2021-08-19
https://blog.tjcx.me/p/consume-less-create-more
This article inspired me on two things :
1) Lots of the things I do in everyday life is just to consume: buying, watching, following, etc. These things either consume my money, or my time. These things make me feel good, but it does not generate real value. In order to get rich, I need to create things. I also start to realize that great people are great because they started to create things at a very early stage of their life (but not consuming things as they advocate, think about celebrities, entrepreneurs etc), so they are able to practice and perfect the value creating skills to the extreme.
2) I start to realize that the world is binary in nature : I create to sell, I buy to consume. I either at the buyer side, or at the seller side. And in this current society, there is a huge buyer side trap, the whole idea of consumerism and social media is to trap you inside the buyer side, so you keep buying, you keep consuming. I really need to break free from this trap.
This blog post was written before COVID-19, but the idea feels even fresher during this pandemic era
Manuel_D · 2023-10-24
The above commenter mentioned censorship. Regardless, the usage of algorithms doesn't mean there's a different set of rules the government can use to regulate it. The incentives you mentioned aren't limited to social media. Traditional media also has these same incentives, and tunes their headlines to be more sensational and attention grabbing. For example: https://blog.tjcx.me/p/new-york-times-ab-testing HN discussion at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26419070
TrailMixRaisin · 2022-04-28
Well, the link is broken but I assume OP meant to link to:
https://blog.tjcx.me/p/google-terrible-health-information
Funny how there can be a discussion about the content when the link is invalid. That together with the "SEO is destroying the internet" article lets me think of karma whoring...