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Comment by klohto | Hacker News Reader

I appreciate the story, although bit overstretched.

I do have a question whether it’s just my ADHD, but was the writing horribly hard to follow for anyone else? I could not keep my focus while reading each of the paragraphs.

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I think it's sort of mode of reading thing: while on HN you expect either a technical piece of information, or news where you can quickly jump directly to conclusion. But this one is a rare bird here, a story-telling. I wouldn't call it a literary achievement, but it's written well for its genre. It can frustrate if you try to read it as news, of course

Huh, how odd; I had the opposite impression, as I came to write praise for how fun the writer was with this little story. Different strokes.

Interesting comment. I read the first three paragraphs, then jumped to the last paragraph, which looked too long to read. :-)

I just started skipping over it as it was feeling kind of rambley

You did better than me. I get half the page covered in a registration wall and I haven't got the patience to get rid of it.

Considering all the replies here, I'm guessing not everyone is getting this demand to register or everyone is being particularly generous with their email address.

Not alone; hard to follow, gave up half way even though I'd have preferred to know the end.

Depends on what you're looking for. If you want a rambling biographical story then the article is great. If you want to receive the message that "find my" is broken for airpods then it's got a whole lot of unnecessary words.

Not hard. Just boring.

Severe ADHD here and I actually found myself eager to keep reading despite not being at all what I expected when I clicked

It was a general waste of my time.

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