[wutbrodo]

> For an essay with that tone to really make its point it needs to be crystalline in its clarity and feel a real depth of reasoning, otherwise it will lose the reader.

This has a lot to do with the community he's part of and still implicitly writes for. He's blown up in recent years, but the blog still has a strong core readerbase of people with significantly longer attention spans than the average person, among other things. In all the years I've read his work, the meandering, often-humorous examples are half the fun, which makes the discovery of the thesis more enjoyable as well.