I wish hacker news allowed a short description of why something might be interesting... How about I take an hour and try to interpret this history of a Prince Albert advertising campaign?
But if you can read the words "BUT just among ourselves, you better start a rapid whiz system to keep tabs as to how fast you’ll buzz from low smoke spirits to TIP-TOP-HIGH" and not understand why someone thought it worth sharing, I don't know what to say.
"long article on long winded text forms misses the point" or "... tries to prove a point"
"ad copy by example's the charm"
"author missing pulse of time reminisces on golden age"
disclaimer: too long; didn't read
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." has been in the guidelines for years.
tl;dr culture is not a positive. Slow down.
So then, culture is not? Just isn't? Doesn't make sense.
And they're just fun to read.