[TheCowboy]

> No-one really likes engineering war stories

Is that really true? I did keep reading the entire piece. I think they're often interesting and can contain nuggets of wisdom or insight. Or sometimes they're just funny. When I meet someone who worked on something interesting, I often start trying to pry stories like this post out of them.

[shermantanktop]

Everyone likes engineering war stories!!! Never heard of an engineer who didn’t.

[yk]

No, but it is amazing first sentence. Everybody goes, this story is specifically for me, I'm very special.

[eCa]

I read the piece (and enjoyed it) despite the first sentence. I’ve become increasingly sensitive to this kind of fluff.

It’s not a hook, it’s bad read-bait.

[tclancy]

Well then you are very special.

Introverts hate this one weird trick!

[bobthebuilders]

Half the time I read the stories they're just a thinly disguised ad for some flavor the day SaaS, so at least in this instance the hook was somewhat useful. Now if everyone uses this to shill their SaaS, then maybe not.

[derekcheng08]

LOL came here to say this exactly. Everyone LOVES war stories in my experience :)