This is so typical in the HN comments.
This is a comment thread about 1962 interview of Miles Davis, not Albert Cory...
And its definetely NOT about programming, OR leadership.
>And its definetely NOT about programming, OR leadership
Never had to be. Perhaps you took the name "Hacker News" too literally?
He compares Miles' onstage behavior when another musician is soloing with Art Blakey's very different approach.
It's worth reading them both, and I am glad they were both called to my attention.
To answer your question about why it's at the top of the comment thread, I'm sure you already know the answer: multiple people like myself found it interesting and upvoted it.
Complaining about that won't change anything.
In short: Because it got the most upvotes.
Sounds trivial but there is a deeper point to it. "Top comment" isn't about who gave the most praise or the harshest crisicism or the best summary or the most controversial take on the topic. It's about what the collective HN hivemind found was moving the conversation forward in the most interesting way. That's what's getting upvoted. If that happens to have mentioned another article, well, so be it.
I spent a lot of time on the rest of it. For this part, I didn't think I had anything particular to say about "character" that wouldn't take me days to compose, and might not be what Blakey meant by it anyway.
But yeah, this device has worn out its welcome.