I was on LW when it emerged from the OB blog and back then it was a interesting and engaging group, though even then there were like 5 “major” contributors - most of which had no coherent academic or commercial success.

As soon as those “sequences” were being developed it was clearly turning into a cult around EY, that I never understood and still don’t.

This article did a good job of covering the history since and was really well written.

Water finds its own level