In response to this comment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10789658" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10789658</a><p>&gt; 28 points (and counting) for a bullshit fluff piece absolutely filled to the brim with Amazon product links.
Tell people they can be fit with no effort on their part, add the word hack, bump up the upvotes with friend&#x27;s accounts to get started, profit.<p>i don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a fluff piece for people who are wondering how to start, though yes, for people who are already experienced, it probably might not contain many revelations (I was actually interested in the equipment used)<p>FWIW, I stumbled on this article because I was revisiting some of the author&#x27;s past work, particularly his writeups on how he, as a computer scientist, tried to figure out the scientific medical research relating to his son&#x27;s rare genetic disorder:<p>Hunting down my son&#x27;s killer: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;matt.might.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;my-sons-killer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;matt.might.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;my-sons-killer&#x2F;</a><p>The followup in the New Yorker: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;21&#x2F;one-of-a-kind-2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;21&#x2F;one-of-a-kind-2</a><p>It&#x27;s possible the author is a good writer when it comes to comsci and medicine and a total self-promoting-spam-douche when it comes to writing about fitness. But at the very least, I am interested that he was able to maintain a fitness regime while pursuing his academic and personal computer science goals.