[HN Gopher] Microspeak: North Star - The Old New Thing (2015)
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       Microspeak: North Star - The Old New Thing (2015)
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-12-23 22:23 UTC (36 minutes ago)
        
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       | markus_zhang wrote:
       | There were references of "North star" as a personal/business
       | objective/guide before 2015. I Googled the term "My north star"
       | and there were a book "Finding Your Own North Star" published in
       | 2001. So it was definitely something back in 2015. There was
       | another book published in 1997:
       | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66140.Finding_Your_Own_N...
       | but I think it is the same book and Goodread might got the year
       | wrong. But I'll take 1997.
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       | I found another webpage from 1987 that took "North Star" with the
       | same concept. https://reprieve.org/uk/our-history/
       | 
       | > This mission is our North Star when it comes to taking on new
       | cases and moving into new areas of work. We continue to fight for
       | justice and save lives,
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       | Another one from 1978: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/j-thomas-
       | fyans/prophet-north-...
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       | Anyway, I do agree with Raymond (if he did think so) that
       | business slogans are annoying.
        
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