It's good to remember that authors of magazine articles don't pick their titles. We've switched to the subtitle above (shortened to fit HN's 80-char limit).
The first paragraph says "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."
The second half is an extended plea not to engage in "trashing" on this site.
And I don't think even big companies like Google do. The backlash against drones and that China SE were telling.
I don't have any answers to those problems, and these sorts of articles are interesting as background to what it all is.