I’ve always thought HN is so relatively pleasant because of the investment it puts into quality moderation. But reading this profile really underscored how different things would be had two other people, of different temperaments and perspectives on life, been selected as mods. I imagined the mods to stereotypically be, at oldest, late-20s techies in SV. But it makes sense in retrospect one is in his mid-30s, and one is old enough to have 2 children of his own.