If you make the terrible mistake of going to graduate school and then study in any serious depth something that ends up becoming “blog/HN popular”, you’ll have

If you make the terrible mistake of going to graduate school and then study in any serious depth something that ends up becoming “blog/HN popular”, you’ll have (in my experience) the experience of realizing how many extremely interesting blog posts are just people mashing together one-quarter understood concepts. You’ll also realize some people are surface-level boring but extremely competent, and possibly become afraid of them and their powers.