I have the greatest respect for the art and wisdom of Erudil; but... I think he got a few things wrong.

1. 12). CPAN is huge and contains a lot of good. But also, a lot of dross.

   And much of the very best is a result of someone taking it upon themselves to reinvent something that already existed. But doing it right; or simply better.

2. 13) There is a distinct difference between "parsing html";

   and "extracting some subtext from within some text", that may actually or superficially resemble html.

3. 16) & 17) are often misinterpreted.

   There is a common mis-assumption that choosing not to back down on your convictions is "losing one's cool", "uncontrolled emotion" or "feeding the trolls". Which completely fails to consider the possibility that standing up for what you believe to be true could be a desirable and admirable trait. Even to those that do not share the conviction.

There's an old saying (or maybe just a song lyric?), that goes: perspective is everything. It's wrong. Perspective is important. Recognising that perspective changes with viewpoint is more so.