That first article references an essay called ‘Not all vampires suck blood.’ The link is dead, so I found a backup at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20610102

Oh my goodness, this feels extremely familiar. I have some reading and work to do. Thank you for linking this.

This is incredible work. I recently attended Westpoint and got out for reasons beyond my control, this is basically a recipe for that whole system. Every. Single. Point. Describes what I went through to a T. Seeing this laundry list for the abuse I went through is chilling, but it's nice to be gone. Hopefully people read this and avoid those situations, it's a pretty horrible thing to get involved with.

I remember coming across the first sick systems article you mentioned almost 5 years back when I was with a company which the symptoms of a sick system and this article helped immensely. While I could know that the place is bad and not suitable for me I couldn't really pinpoint why it is bad and how I can get out of it. This article gave me a great perspective and actually propelled my career.

I just wanted to say that I found these links profoundly insightful today. I’m going to start handing them out a lot in the future. Thank you!

Couldn't be more timely