It’s worth reading the whole thing, especially because your comment and reaction to it (the posting of a comment about it on HN) is precisely the topic of the e

It’s worth reading the whole thing, especially because your comment and reaction to it (the posting of a comment about it on HN) is precisely the topic of the essay. In the bounds of the voice of the essay (personal, slightly dishy, academic) this is not rambling, it’s coherent and fairly pointed - the way that it makes its point is through triangulation and narrative, instead of the more typical blogspam which makes its point through h2 tags, name dropping and emphatic retellings of how CAC was cut by 18% resulting in the author becoming rich. At any rate, you might give it another read, and mull over his idea that HN and the rest of the social internet are an especially pernicious ‘game’ - I think it’s worth the time.