I like this blog post, this is the vision of Stack Overflow that I bought into when I started posting. However, it's hard not to read this blog post as a diplomatic pushback to the current efforts of SO leaders to make it more welcoming. Jeff Atwood says that SO is "supposed to involve a healthy kind of minor [...] anxiety".

This section in particular stands out to me:

> This is why I cringe so hard I practically turn myself inside out when people on Twitter mention that they have pointed their students at Stack Overflow. What you'd want for a beginner or a student in the field of programming is almost the exact opposite of what Stack Overflow does at every turn:

> * one on one mentoring * real time collaborative screen sharing * live chat * theory and background courses * starter tasks and exercises

> These are all very fine and good things, but Stack Overflow does NONE of them, by design.

If this were on the official SO blog, I would be very surprised.