> If you stop and think about what that means experientially, it's pretty shocking: it means that we are surrounded by our own demons. Since everyone else is ha

> If you stop and think about what that means experientially, it's pretty shocking: it means that we are surrounded by our own demons. Since everyone else is having the same experience, a forum like this is a community of people who all feel surrounded by their own demons, not realizing that they are mostly creating them for ourselves. I've been thinking about this all day since I read it. Thanks for this. It's a profound insight for me. This along with BurntSushi's insight about emotional code smell makes this one of the best hn post ever for me.