I read this article with caution. I don't want to upset the delicate balance that is my intuition of how the borrow checker works. Articles that say "Don't think of it like X" are double edged swords ;-)

In reality, though, while it took me a while to get relatively comfortable with the borrow checker (much longer than I expected as an old school C++ programmer), 99.9% of the time it works exactly as I expect. Of course the other 0.1% of the time takes a lot of my energy ;-)