Hernan7, you're right. I'm going to change that right now. Like most people's blogs, mine is mostly read by friends. In my case, we're all book nerds who get together and talk on themes like these. But in a public context that does look like an idiotic, pompous thing to write.
Hi Kenneth, thanks for taking my comment as intended. The rest of the article is much better :-)
God I love civil dialogue. Please, nobody ever tell the rest of the internet about Hacker News.