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Tim O’Hearn is a software engineer who works in quantitative finance. He is also an entrepreneur and freelance writer.

As a sports journalist, he covered the 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. As a prolific creator of user-generated content, he has written hundreds of book reviews and thousands of other entries such as restaurant reviews, product reviews, blog posts, and comments-section polemics.

Framed: A Villain's Perspective on Social Media is his first book.

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I'm now a "Best Selling" author.

My dining partner fist-bumped me.

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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
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“What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time.”
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