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While it's true that depression has been exhaustively studied by experts in white coats, they were studying "average" people. HN exists because the community ha
by tlb 14y ago
While it's true that depression has been exhaustively studied by experts in white coats, they were studying "average" people. HN exists because the community has certain mental characteristics in common, and perhaps there is something useful to be said about how human problems affect hackers in particular.
- raganwald 14y agoVery true! Here is one of my personal favourite essays about how human problems affect hackers in particular: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm