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I don't understand all the negative people. I truly don't. You weren't forced to read about her problems. You weren't forced to upvote this post to the front p
by onedev 13y ago
I don't understand all the negative people. I truly don't.
You weren't forced to read about her problems. You weren't forced to upvote this post to the front page. Yet all you people do is complain.
The post made it to the frontpage because maybe it hit home for a lot of people here? Perhaps people are fascinated by her very personal story? There could be a number of reasons.
HN gets very tiring very fast because of all the negativity. It's terrible. Stop and reflect and realize that HUMAN BEINGS are on the other side of the words written here.
- marvin 13y agoI think it's fear. This essay questions the motivation and premises of the biggest life choices of many people on Hacker News. Be smart, be ambitious, study hard, be successful, make a lot of money. I've seen people recoil very hard when they are reminded about very deeply buried insecurities. When someone suffers from depression or anxiety, you'll sometimes see the most incredible mental gymnastics to avoid going into therapy and doing a bit of introspection. "I don't like the therapist". "It's boring". "This is pseudoscience". To me this looks like an instance of the same phenomenon; it's more comfortable to reject this premise entirely than to consider that it could also be relevant to your own life.