Ever wondered how to behave in an elevator?
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> gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
The piece also deals with an important point...if you have your own startup and you are moving into an office - just ensure you don't get one with an elevator.
Given your username I think you would appreciate this random piece but I take on board your point and I won't post these types of articles in the future.
I occasionally post things like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1113300
It usually gets a comment or two such as can be found there saying that it more correctly belongs on reddit, say. My reply there sums up my attitude as to why I think it is interesting.
But I have found here on HN that if you don't make those observations explicitly, if you don't start to do some analysis that leads from the original, then people will dismiss it as "Diverting, but content-free and not appropriate."
So, can you actually apply it to this audience? Are there lessons to learn (apart from the obvious "Don't get office space that requires an elevator) ??
Just my $0.02.
I think you are right - it does belong on a Reddit type site. I find it really frustrating that there is not a hacker news type service but for creative writers. I love startups but I also like to blog but it's hard getting any people to read my content!
You are right though there is more appropriate media out there for these sort of posts but I am just not certain what they are.
I am not sure I can spin it to meet the audience but I have noticed that the Hacker News audience is generally one that is very open minded and also one that likes to be entertained. This 'entertainment' normally comes in the form of startups and all things interent but there are also users who have a sense of humour (such as yourself) who can appreciate the odd, random entertaining post (I hope).
When you step into anywhere public, which includes a lift you have to tolerate people, some of them do things you don't like. Sorry about that but that's what society is partly about, tolerance...