samglover97 | 4 years ago | on: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA
I don't do that much on current events anymore but you might find my substack interesting: https://atis.substack.com
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samglover97 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Substack worth the hassle in 2022?
Ghost.
samglover97 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Substack worth the hassle in 2022?
I get the impression that the SEO on substack needs working on - sometimes when I google someone (e.g. 'Scott Alexander' or 'Matt Yglesias') their old pages with their old writing will come up before their substack page.
samglover97 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?
A few books I enjoyed:
- The Case against Education by Bryan Caplan, discussing the merits of signalling theory (the point of education is to signal your intelligence and conscientiousness) as opposed to human capital theory (education genuinely makes you a better worker with more skills). Didn't find it totally convincing but it was a fun and interesting read.
- The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Harden, a wonderful book on how hereditary IQ is, and why that is a good case for redistribution, given that IQ is so predictive of wealth/income
- The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, a biography of Jennifer Doudna, the woman who founded CRISPR and won the Nobel prize. Great read, thrilling.
- My Struggle book 1, by Karl Ove Knausgård. Haven't finished this yet, just started it a few days ago - about 300 pages in. Great, great novel, one of the best I've read in a while.
samglover97 | 4 years ago | on: An underrated idea: the priority view
Author here, thanks for catching that error.
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