The description of the article says: DNA tests promise to tell people who they are and where they’re from. But for Emma Gilchrist, a search for an

The description of the article says: DNA tests promise to tell people who they are and where they’re from. But for Emma Gilchrist, a search for answers only led to more questions. But the article starts: On an overcast Sunday morning, one week before Father’s Day, I walked inside a breakfast joint in Nanaimo, BC. And my question is -- why should I care? Hundreds of articles just like this one, each with what I am sure are interesting views and perspectives, pass my way every day. How do I decide if this article is worth reading, if I cannot tell what it is about (and if I should be interested), and there is nothing to make it stand out? If you aren't going to reveal the subject matter in the first paragraph or so, then it's probably not worth my time to find out, because I can find something that I am assured to be interested in and learn from in another second. It's not that I like that content is being generated so fast, that it requires this level of selection[5], but that is simply how it is. I could waste 15 minutes of my time reading this article, or I could read something more interesting that is obviously interesting andor relevant to me on the front page -- like reverse engineering a chip[3], or why drone swarms are disappearing in the midwest[4] (Both examples given because they were parallel on the front page and seem to match the magazine-style format, not necessarily because I have any particular interest in either). This feels a lot like the oft-referenced meme about recipe bloggers putting their entire life story at the start of a two-line recipe[0]. For whatever reason, it has become so ubiquitous even a common magazine called it out[1]. It was even (unintentionally) parodied in the New York Times, where this shortbread recipe[2] talks about the attacks of 9/11 at the start(!!) [0]: https://galpalactic.tumblr.com/post/134577149346/me-googles-how-to-mash-potatoes-some-food https://galpalactic.tumblr.com/post/134577149346/me-googles-... [1]: https://slate.com/technology/2017/12/why-does-every-online-recipe-begin-with-the-preface-to-a-personal-memoir.html https://slate.com/technology/2017/12/why-does-every-online-r... [2]: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017089-maple-shortbread-bars https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017089-maple-shortbread... [3]: http://www.righto.com/2021/04/reverse-engineering-vintage-comparator.html http://www.righto.com/2021/04/reverse-engineering-vintage-co... [4]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/18/attack-of-the-drones-the-mystery-of-disappearing-swarms-in-the-us-midwest https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/18/attack-of-the-... [5]: And in the next 10 years, I'm sure, even faster due to GPT-3 or some competitor taking off.