&gt;to avoid narrowing your reading to startups and web tech.<p>Where did I try to make this point? My issue is with the quality, not the subject. As pluteoid remarked, this is not a very good article, and fairly long-winded with regard to its content.<p>There has been many submissions of articles regarding color theory and its relation to psychology, design and physics, many of which are very interesting, and make you learn useful and applicable knowledge. For instance, you may learn how to write an imagemagick script to get the dichromat version of an image.