Excellent post! If there's one overarching complaint about the tech community (and HN specifically), it would be this tendency to claim being completely rational, while faulting others for supposedly being corrupted by emotions.<p>It's wrong both in assuming that emotions are necessarily inferior to other modes of thinking, as well as in not recognizing that everyone makes decisions primarily on emotional grounds (smart people only get to make up better rationaizations).<p>Related: "advertisement doesn't work on me", "I only review primary data and come up with my own opinions", and every claim ever that some organization is a strict meritocracy.