Ian Leslie
ian-leslie.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2023
Ian Leslie, a British writer, covers psychology, history, culture, and ideas, including pieces on aging, historians, and The Beatles.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for an in-depth essay on The Beatles' "Get Back" documentary and for his criticism of academic history.
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- 127 Notes on Growing Old(er)3 people · 10 points · first shared 2025 · 3 comments on HN
- 2Stories are bad for your intelligence: How Historians Make Themselves Stupid2 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 3The End Of History: Academic historians are destroying their own discipline1 people · 38 points · first shared 2023 · 3 comments on HN
- 4The Battle of Bamber Bridge1 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 5Notes on the Greatest Night in Pop1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 6Rational Ritual: Why Everyone Needs to Know What Everyone Knows1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 7The Orangutan Theory of Intelligence1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 8Ten Useful Concepts1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 9Did John Lennon think he was Jesus?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 10The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back (2022)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 11How the Mad Men Lost the Plot Again1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 12I Use ChatGPT1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Only trust people with imposter syndrome1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14Reasons There Won't Be an AI Jobs Apocalypse1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
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wallflower · 2023-10-14
There is an epic, enjoyable read about “Get Back” from someone who deeply knows The Beatles in case you missed it the first turning.
https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-banality-of-genius-notes-on-peter
peanutcrisis · 2023-09-07
Yeah, I see this quite a fair bit from The Guardian. A recent example [0] that was called out here [1] and a recent discussion on HN here [2].
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-revolution-…
[1] https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/stories-are-bad-for-your-intelligence
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37373257