That’s exactly how I would put it. I read his article on Philosophy yesterday at 30 after reading his essays at 20 and admiring him. It’s crazy how impressionable my mind was at 20
I worked at a BigCo after a bunch of small ones, and got totally stressed about the friction as well. Took me a couple years away from the experience to realize that slow processes can be a great thing in their own right because it gives you a lot of time to think about your own interests in and outside of coding.
Hume’s Wikipedia page is really funny where it describes his life post breakdown. He certainly enjoyed the merry life and a good port. I thought it would be a funny idea to do a “day in the life” video following Hume’s lifestyle and just end up stone drunk on port.
Also, there’s a statue of Hume in the center of Edinburgh where he looks emaciated and serious like the ancient philosophers looked, and I’ve always thought it was a funny statue, because it completely gets his character (and stature I’m guessing) wrong.
The author of this essay assumes a familiarity with the MFA v. PHD debate that might not be right for the HN crowd. If you're curious about this topic though, I would recommend Elif Batuman's Get a Real Degree: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n18/elif-batuman/get-a-r...
It's very funny writing, Batuman has a PHD in Russian Literature and she does a good job of giving a high-level overview.
I agree with others about the clicks. I weirdly got it on the first guess and thought it would be revealed after. Or more of the squares would be revealed per guess a la wordle
The first episode of Mad Men alludes to Bernays work. They are trying to come up with a new campaign for Lucky Strike and he rejects an idea to base the campaign off of Freud’s research.