I normally post my book summaries on HN because people get value out of them. In this case, I made a comment on HN, I replied, a discussion ensued, I decided th

I normally post my book summaries on HN because people get value out of them. In this case, I made a comment on HN, I replied, a discussion ensued, I decided that it was too big for a comment and I'd blog about it. Tichy asked me to submit the post to HN when I was done with it and his request got modded to +5. I would love to hear which part of the writing you think was bad because I have also been told that this was one of my most well written posts yet due to the relaxed tone. (In the past, I have also been accused of having the tone of a hyper rigorous basement-dweller, and although you can't please everyone, a proper balance is maybe the better approach.) If you think that too much of the post is speculation, then you will be appeased to know that most of my points are actually backed up in the bibliography of Flow. Certainly my blog post was not meant to be construed as scholarly - just intellectually interesting and hopefully insightful.