I appreciate the feedback. I once presented a promotion document to a room of Amazon VPs, and the first words uttered were “this is the biggest pile of shit I’ve ever read in my life”. So you are in good company with your critique, although you were much kinder :).

Fwiw, I had no idea other people were posting on hackernews, and certainly didn’t ask anyone to. I’m also not sure why I would do that? I might only add, in the gentlest way possible and only the slightest of irony, that this is exactly the type of assuming wrong intentions the essay is referring to that we all do from time to time.

Cheers, Lucas (author of above blog)

Fair enough. I appreciate the calling out of my irony. :)

I see so many people aggressively push self-promotion on HN, breaking the rules and etiquette, trying to force visibility of their own content that I may have gotten a bit jaded about it. It is refreshing to see someone who is being more reasonable, and a good critique of my own reactions.