[swombat]

The first 15 years or so of life are just tutorial missions, which suck. There’s no way to skip these.

Umm... right. Seriously? That's all the advice this guy has on the first 15 years of life?

Reading the rest, it doesn't look like he has much of use to say about anything else either.

[oliveremberton]

Author here. Originally I had a lot of blather in that section, but given:

1. It's a long post 2. Most of my readers are presumably >15 yrs old 3. I honestly think most people up to age 15 have limited control over their lives

I decided to trim it down. Obviously I am not literally saying that a 14-and-11-months year old has no influence over their destiny but a 15 year old does. But superfluous precision is the enemy of effective writing; you end up with a legal document.

[CJefferson]

I would say "pay attention to the tutorial missions. The main game assumes you completed all the tutorials well."

[ulisesrmzroche]

That's because you're playing it on creative mode though. Starts you out as a white dude born in the USA and also turns off the mobs. Things get a lot more interesting in Survival mode where you could be born in a slum in and you start seeing mobs like "Birth Complications" right out the spawn zone.

[levosmetalo]

Did you seriously expect to learn a meaning of life from a blog post? Or you were expecting an advice how to live better, faster, happier life?

It's just a blog post that attempts to be fun. As much as can be expected is few nods and smiles while reading it, and a few seconds pause to think about it at the end. And that's it, it's not like author pretends he's Seneca or Aristotle or semeone else.

[VLM]

"Did you seriously expect to learn a meaning of life from a blog post? Or you were expecting an advice how to live better, faster, happier life?"

Sure. There's plenty of blogs like that, aside from fluffblogs. Almost no one will agree with any given collection but here's one anyway. Mrmoneymustache for personal finance and any generic paleo blog for food, health, and fitness (robb wolf used to be the center of that world, seems he's being out-SEO-ed by competitors now). How much money will improve your life is debatable nonetheless you've got the zerohedge and thehousingbubbleblog. I tend not to agree with them, but thousands (millions?) of religious bloggers at least think they're improving lives, even if I think they're generally doing the opposite. If you allow podcasts (close enough to blogs, read a blog post out loud) there are uncountable educational lecture podcasts (I have listened to about a dozen history related ones, why are history podcasts so popular?) and the survival podcast (which is almost surely not what you think it is, its sort of a how to prosper being a very small scale homesteader, basically this is how to be a non startup non tech non govt handout entrepreneur)

There's probably a difficult and complicated challenge for a startup to categorize blogs as either deep or fluff. In the spirit of PG, everyone thinking its too hard means its a great startup idea.