I find the presentation of this article jarring. Bold, italics, underlining, yellow highlighting, light yellow highlighting.

I would argue that content should never highlight anything. Highlighting should be reserved for the reader to highlight the parts they find important or relevant. Authors have plenty of other tools at their disposal - all of which this article uses - and the preemptive highlighting is distracting and almost.....offensive in a sense that the author thinks I can't determine the relevant parts simply based on the fact that they are also in bold.

The high level of visual distraction detracts from the article as 20 elements on screen are all screaming for my attention and making it significantly harder to read the content in its entirety. It's like the text-only version of a mobile website filled with ads popping in and out.

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james_pm 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Same. I can identify with the subject matter, but the whole thing was just so off-putting. Trite, sound bites.

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kgwxd 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd argue "buy my book" posts, especially ones posted by the author, shouldn't make the front page of HN. Especially from YC alum. Is this an ad in disguise?

	▲	AlexB138 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Agreed. The first half of this post is actually interesting, but the second half quickly transforms into an ad. That disappointed me, because I believe the author has something interesting to say.
	▲	Gooblebrai 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm not the author. I just found the article, read it and found it interesting enough. I don't know who the guy is or even what he does.

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lateral_cloud 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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