Craig Newmark
craigconnects.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark writes about philanthropy, customer service, trust in media, privacy, and his work with veterans' services.
What HN saysCommenters recall his Veterans Affairs work, while one calls his advice on keeping your mouth shut some of the worst business and personal advice they've seen.
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- 1Knowing When to Keep Your Mouth Shut2 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 2Why Wikipedia Could Become the People's Newspaper of Record2 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
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- 4Trolls, Fake Trolls, and Outrage Addiction1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 5Who should learn to code? Everyone.1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Craig Newmark named "nerd-in-residence" at Dept. of Veterans Affairs1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 7Half a Life in Customer Service1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8The nerd-in-residence1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 9Craig Newmark: Privacy, Google, and Facebook1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 10Why I'm a nerd and not a geek1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 11Craigconnects1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 12Supporting some nonprofits, and some not1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13Code Is Power1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 147 Brilliant Women in Tech1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 15Big Deal Factchecking1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
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danso · 2016-06-18
Reminds me of when Craig Newmark did a stint with Veterans Affairs, becoming a real evangelist for the agency and getting into the nitty gritty of office IT:
http://craigconnects.org/2009/11/why-craigslist-founder-joins-va-innov…
http://craigconnects.org/2013/04/veterans-disability-claims-backlog-se…
kev009 · 2015-07-02
Not very familiar with him but stumbled upon this a while ago and it's some of the worst business and personal advice I've ever seen: http://craigconnects.org/2014/12/knowing-when-to-keep-your-mouth-shut.… I wondered if he has some screws loose after reading it.
As someone deeply interested in UNIX history, it's also revisionist and dismissive of hard fought wins by people who don't cower like he did -- real UNIX is incredibly successful to this day.. SysV (Solaris/Illumos), BSD, etc.
selmnoo · 2013-11-04
Sridhar Vembu of Zoho - http://blogs.zoho.com/author/sridhar
Craig Newmark - http://craigconnects.org/blog
Mark Cuban - http://blogmaverick.com
Tim O'Reilly - http://radar.oreilly.com/tim
Yeah, I'm pretty sure evidence to the contrary is stronger. A little googling tells me C-levels and founders of forbes 100 are often proflic bloggers. Novell, Cisco, Oracle, a lot of founders of big companies in India, and many here in the non-tech sector blog as well.
Insofar as commenting on HN and other similar sites is quite similar to blogging, there's a lot of others here too.