I am amused to see this on the front page. I submitted it previously and it did not get a single upvote and I found myself wanting to post more and more quotes from it because I found the piece so fascinating. So I deleted it and did a blog write up about it (with all those quotes I had begun making notes of), and then submitted that, hoping it would have more appeal for the audience here. It also got no real attention.

So, apparently, luck and timing are huge factors in what does well here.

Fridays and Saturdays are known to be slower reading days, especially for a long article like this. Otherwise IMO people don't have the attention span to read anything longer than a TechCrunch article. That may have been a factor as well.

Glancing at your submission list, I didn't see your blog post. Would you mind sharing it?

Here is the HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7918958

Direct link to article: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/06/messy-work-b...

>So, apparently, luck and timing are huge factors in what does well here.

Here, and everywhere else too :)

Holy crap that was a long read. I was able to see the road just before it was bull dozed. I bought a door that was in the second house many years ago for a friend of mine.