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why is this on HN?

• waivek 9y ago
  Joseph Campbell is an important figure in the JavaScript community.
• kreetx 9y ago
  Joseph Campbell is a humanitarian who researches myths, also doing quite some interpretation and trying to relate the meaning to the human life at large. It has nothing to do with software development, but (apparently) many of us find his ideas applicable, perhaps especially on the startuppy side of things, where courage etc is required.
• n4r9 9y ago
  "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"
• dredmorbius 9y ago
  A poor choice of questions, FYI. Campbell exhibits traits and practices of creativity, originality, and intellectual accomplishment of interest to some HN readers. Certainly myself.
• 1123581321 9y ago
  I think it's for a few reasons. Many of us are interested in biographies and what made famous people the way they are. Others would like to master programming, computer science, or some other field and look for how to achieve it. Still others are trying to figure out how to quit HN without losing any of the benefits. Finally, some users fall into all of these groups. :)