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I agree that it's not Hacker News, but it is intellectually engaging, and there are lessons to be learned ... Conflict resolution, finding common ground, agree

I agree that it's not Hacker News, but it is intellectually engaging, and there are lessons to be learned ... Conflict resolution, finding common ground, agreeing differences that exist, but don't have to matter, and the observation that today we can invest all of 3 minutes to discover stuff, then decide whether we want to know more. When I was 22 I moved country, and I knew nothing about where I was going. Encyclopedias told me very, very little, and after days, literally days, in the library, I still knew almost nothing. Today I can spend 5 minutes on the 'net and know more in that time than I could've found in days of diligent, comprehensive, but above all boring research. Read with the intent of learning - not all lessons are obvious, and some are worth more for having found them, rather than being given them.

ABrandt 17y ago
I think its been particularly interesting growing up during this transitional period. I'm 21 now, but I can remember up to about the 6th grade when card catalogs and encyclopedias were still pushed on us at school. But the internet was coming into its own during this period as well. These parallel environments have given my generation a unique perspective of the web. We've essentially grown up together--perhaps there's a psychological connection here that can explain other behaviors.