Plenty of Americans hate it too. Just not the ones that are likely to remain in this person's social environment.

Neither an European nor an American here (born in India actually), and I too stopped reading for the same reason.

I hadn't even started reading at that point. By the third sentence I was skimming. I slowed down at the heading "Age of Leverage" but didn't start actually reading till the bullet points

1. A Start Here page

2. A curated list of your favorite articles

At that point I thought the advice on bootstrapping a blog was quite worthwhile. I think the reading strategy of rejecting articles that start slow is not as good as skimming over what isn't interesting to get to what is.

Its a shame that you stopped reading -- it is an excellent article.

> it is an excellent article

About self/online marketing, not so much about writing.