[mbrock]

I appreciate stories like this more when the author just tells their story. When you like something I guess it's natural to want other people to follow. But writing that uses this mode of "you should" seems to assume too much about the audience. We might be in a totally different situation. For example I'm just settling into my new apartment after living in dorms and collectives all my life -- it's my first time even owning a couch.

[jamesaguilar]

I don't have any problem with the writer assuming the reader can intelligently apply the article to him or herself.

[mbrock]

That's where I'm coming from, too -- which is why I prefer to just hear the author's own story. But let's not quibble...