A few modest add-ons, if I may:

• There are many books about it with contradictory advice and which in practice aren’t very helpful.
• Most people who get paid to do it have some sort of baggage.
• People who didn’t start in highschool feel that they’re at a disadvantage.
• College, despite the advertising, seems to show a skewed and incorrect version of real-world practice.
• While more people can mean more fun, it usually devolves into drama.
• Doing it in public will get you strange looks.
• Everybody says they’re doing more than they actually are.
• It is alarming how effective obese people can be at it.
• There are always jobs available on Craigslist, and they’re all debasing and horrible.

There’s always someone willing to write about the only right way to do things.

Who, ESR?

I didn’t really get it until I was 37?
It’s always done standing up?
It’s done using a computer?
I always feel dirty afterwards?
It always involves a mouse?

the comments are pretty funny, don’t forget to read the comments.