Merry Christmas Eve, hope you're spreading lots of love and holiday joy to all this year!

You’re not alone

I feel like humans in general work fairly well when story or myth is tied to an explanation, but can understand that's not for everyone. I'm reminded of oral histories that humans make in order to warn about tsunamis. Her linking her brother's ailments with the state of the planet drew me in and I learned a few things that I can look into myself. For example, The Great Unconformity I'm sure I can look up a bit about (and sources are provided in the article) and similarly for the possibilities of things that might give us insight into that time period (also referenced and sourced in the article). My experience is that Nautlius in general has this type of lyrical prose and doesn't really pose itself as a peer-reviewed journal or anything. All that to say that to minimize the story as about "some writers day" feels disingenuous to me.

People relating stories around a campfire and people writing stories for the Web are not comparable. I certainly don’t have the capacity to be drawn in to some writers day whom I don’t know with the amount of content that is out there.

And even less now these days when some of them might be AI-written.

These stories weren't really tied, more like intertwined.

Maybe both of them were interesting, but I couldn't follow either.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Super relevant. None of the OP even has to do with the author's average day so it's doubly disingenuous

I could tell you were a software engineer before I even checked.

I agree. All topics I read about on news aggregation sites are for the topic themselves. I don’t want to spend eight paragraphs of “my mother tends to get pensive and quiet around Christmas now, eight years after my father passed” in order to figure out that the article is about the new iPad.

So for me it’s not a good style.