There’s a relevant difference in that when Scott does it, the analogy is used only for part of the post—the topic is introduced beforehand, which lets people immediately start tracking how well the analogy holds, and the analogy is dropped afterwards, for a meta-level discussion of where the analogy works and where it fails. With this post, the analogy is used from the beginning without stating the topic first, which means that people who aren’t interested in that topic can’t tell that the article is one that they should skip, and people’s analogy-accuracy tracking doesn’t come online until mid-way through.
There’s a relevant difference in that when Scott does it, the analogy is used only for part of the post—the topic is introduced beforehand, which lets people immediately start tracking how well the analogy holds, and the analogy is dropped afterwards, for a meta-level discussion of where the analogy works and where it fails. With this post, the analogy is used from the beginning without stating the topic first, which means that people who aren’t interested in that topic can’t tell that the article is one that they should skip, and people’s analogy-accuracy tracking doesn’t come online until mid-way through.