{"id":1258688809706889200,"conversation_id":"1258688809706889216","created_at":1588929772000,"date":"2020-05-08","time":"09:22:52","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When you're in the middle of a crisis, you tend to overestimate how permanent its effects will be.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":174,"retweets_count":944,"likes_count":6319,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1258688809706889216","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1257424762709647400,"conversation_id":"1257424762709647360","created_at":1588628399000,"date":"2020-05-04","time":"21:39:59","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"8 yo proposed an app for boomers, called Boomerama.\n\nMe: What will it do?\n\n8 yo: It will do things boomers like.\n\nMe: What do boomers like?\n\n8 yo: Reading books and doing math problems.\n\nTomorrow I'll teach him about the dangers of small sample size.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":70,"retweets_count":289,"likes_count":4260,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1257424762709647360","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1257422477040455700,"conversation_id":"1257422477040455686","created_at":1588627854000,"date":"2020-05-04","time":"21:30:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Predictable but still strange consequence of quarantine: no one in our family has had so much as a cold for two months.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":66,"retweets_count":67,"likes_count":1508,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1257422477040455686","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1257356544741642200,"conversation_id":"1257354648165527553","created_at":1588612135000,"date":"2020-05-04","time":"17:08:55","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Incidentally, a big part of the reason we have PPE in hospitals is that donors are compensating for the market distortions introduced by US price regulations. They pay market price to Chinese manufacturers, and then give the masks for free to US hospitals.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":44,"likes_count":283,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1257356544741642240","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1257012436319842300,"conversation_id":"1257012436319842305","created_at":1588530093000,"date":"2020-05-03","time":"18:21:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Experimenting with possible designs of a programming language for kids. A strange experience after years of working on Bel. But it is useful to know precisely what Lisp features you're discarding — to know where the rungs of the ladder are.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":59,"retweets_count":19,"likes_count":408,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1257012436319842305","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1256893750791540700,"conversation_id":"1256893322691518464","created_at":1588501796000,"date":"2020-05-03","time":"10:29:56","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"This particular illusion is one that we benefit from, though, because the explosion of apparent complexity is the basis of a lot of textile patterns.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":59,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1256893750791540736","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1256232316768333800,"conversation_id":"1256229770645442562","created_at":1588344098000,"date":"2020-05-01","time":"14:41:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I suppose debugging wouldn't be pleasant if I were more disciplined. \"If I hadn't made these mistakes, I could be using my intellectual powers to the utmost, instead of wasting time fixing them,\" I should be saying (ideally in a German accent). But I'm not that disciplined.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":272,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1256232316768333824","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1256231510803468300,"conversation_id":"1256229770645442562","created_at":1588343906000,"date":"2020-05-01","time":"14:38:26","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"This is one reason you like programming more as you get more experienced. For beginners, debugging is mixed with fear. Oh no, my program doesn't work! When the fear recedes, debugging becomes not merely tolerable but pleasant.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":28,"likes_count":338,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1256231510803468299","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1256230813462651000,"conversation_id":"1256229770645442562","created_at":1588343740000,"date":"2020-05-01","time":"14:35:40","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"There are some bugs (usually involving hard to reproduce state) that are miserable to deal with. But except for those, debugging is one of the most satisfying parts of programming, because the problem is so constrained. It's like intellectual comfort food.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":37,"likes_count":546,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1256230813462650882","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1256229770645442600,"conversation_id":"1256229770645442562","created_at":1588343491000,"date":"2020-05-01","time":"14:31:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"As I was taking a tea break, I found I was looking forward to going back to work. Asked myself why. Because my program had a bug in it. Why would a bug make one more excited to work? Because it would probably be straightforward to catch, and satisfying to fix.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":42,"retweets_count":107,"likes_count":1077,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1256229770645442562","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1255785041902342100,"conversation_id":"1255785041902342144","created_at":1588237460000,"date":"2020-04-30","time":"09:04:20","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Weird potential idea: competence tourism. \n\nE.g. Goldman Sachs has a bunch of people who really need to work in an office together. They can't in the US because of the coronavirus. So instead they all go and work for a while in a country where they can, like Taiwan.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":173,"retweets_count":211,"likes_count":1705,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1255785041902342144","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1255471767596028000,"conversation_id":"1255206035675103233","created_at":1588162769000,"date":"2020-04-29","time":"12:19:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Another way to understand the difference: an investor pitch is a customer pitch where the product is your stock.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":6,"likes_count":73,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1255471767596027907","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1255469986337915000,"conversation_id":"1255469986337914880","created_at":1588162344000,"date":"2020-04-29","time":"12:12:24","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"I think whoever invented the numbers started by just inventing the numbers in the times tables. But that was too easy, so he invented the others to fill in the gaps.\"\n\n— 8 yo on the origin of the primes","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":33,"retweets_count":34,"likes_count":495,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1255469986337914880","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1255212265600512000,"conversation_id":"1255212265600512000","created_at":1588100899000,"date":"2020-04-28","time":"19:08:19","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"8 yo's latest plan is to speak in a different accent at bedtime each day. The day before yesterday it was Forrest Gump. Last night it was Arnold Schwarzenegger. What will tonight bring?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":50,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":351,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1255212265600512000","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1255207101506388000,"conversation_id":"1255206035675103233","created_at":1588099668000,"date":"2020-04-28","time":"18:47:48","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"But when the investors do happen to be typical customers, you can give them the customer pitch as well. If they leave the meeting wanting to buy the product, they'll believe everyone will. In fact if anything they tend to overweight such evidence.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":34,"likes_count":395,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1255207101506387969","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1255206035675103200,"conversation_id":"1255206035675103233","created_at":1588099414000,"date":"2020-04-28","time":"18:43:34","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"A customer pitch and an investor pitch are two very different things. Sometimes almost opposite. E.g. to customers you'd want to emphasize how low your prices are, whereas to investors you'd want to emphasize how big your margins are.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":25,"retweets_count":213,"likes_count":1378,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1255206035675103233","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1254853868854395000,"conversation_id":"1254853868854394881","created_at":1588015451000,"date":"2020-04-27","time":"19:24:11","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I don't know if school programming classes do this, but kids like writing games so much that if I were teaching one, I'd just have them write games for the first several years. (Plus you can sneak practically anything into games.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":174,"retweets_count":224,"likes_count":2599,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254853868854394881","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1254816323303092200,"conversation_id":"1254816323303092225","created_at":1588006499000,"date":"2020-04-27","time":"16:54:59","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Our copycats are script kiddie scum who hijack all our keywords with their half functioning monstrosities.\"\n\n— email from a founder somewhat frustrated by knockoffs","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":43,"retweets_count":22,"likes_count":435,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254816323303092225","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1254809755681525800,"conversation_id":"1254808702860828673","created_at":1588004933000,"date":"2020-04-27","time":"16:28:53","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Lambda School will teach you programming faster than most colleges. And it not only works well remotely, but was designed to from the start.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":14,"likes_count":177,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254809755681525762","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1254773142339256300,"conversation_id":"1254773142339256325","created_at":1587996204000,"date":"2020-04-27","time":"14:03:24","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Whatever the reasons billionaires planned to flee to New Zealand (I doubt there were more than a handful, and I was never clear why), I bet they didn't include the actual advantage of being there now: a government competent enough to suppress an epidemic.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":70,"retweets_count":114,"likes_count":1630,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254773142339256325","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1254760212667474000,"conversation_id":"1254760212667473921","created_at":1587993121000,"date":"2020-04-27","time":"13:12:01","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"11 yo's interest in programming, already quite high, shifted into a higher gear when we started writing games that shoot missiles.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":31,"retweets_count":19,"likes_count":650,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254760212667473921","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1254713033944899600,"conversation_id":"1254713033944899584","created_at":1587981873000,"date":"2020-04-27","time":"10:04:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"11 yo tried to get out of doing his math homework on the grounds that the questions were, technically, valid answers. I explained that what he's really doing, and what most math is, is transforming quantities to a more useful form.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":33,"retweets_count":39,"likes_count":637,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254713033944899584","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1254705000212762600,"conversation_id":"1254705000212762624","created_at":1587979957000,"date":"2020-04-27","time":"09:32:37","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It may not be chance that some of the first efforts by tech companies to censor \"misinformation\" have gotten it wrong. This is a harder problem than most people realize. Impossibly hard, at the edges. And this is not the sort of problem where the edges don't matter.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":54,"retweets_count":45,"likes_count":444,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254705000212762624","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1254402071677280300,"conversation_id":"1254399491911880706","created_at":1587907734000,"date":"2020-04-26","time":"13:28:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"So in one sentence, the strategy for dealing with highly funded competitors is: survive long enough to make it a test of ability.\n\n(This advice applies to more than startups.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":23,"retweets_count":89,"likes_count":618,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254402071677280257","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1254401125899538400,"conversation_id":"1254399491911880706","created_at":1587907508000,"date":"2020-04-26","time":"13:25:08","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"There have been cases where a highly funded startup used the money to kill off all its competitors. But not that many. And the highly funded startup often had the more able founders. There are few cases of highly funded mediocre founders beating underfunded great ones.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":30,"likes_count":278,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254401125899538433","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1254086892649406500,"conversation_id":"1254086461483253760","created_at":1587832589000,"date":"2020-04-25","time":"16:36:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you could figure out a way to translate other problems into questions about how statements could be misrepresented, Twitter would become a very useful tool. But I doubt it's possible.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":34,"retweets_count":18,"likes_count":291,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254086892649406465","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1254086461483253800,"conversation_id":"1254086461483253760","created_at":1587832486000,"date":"2020-04-25","time":"16:34:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When your tweets are seen by a sufficiently large number of people, Twitter becomes an amazingly powerful Mechanical Turk for answering the question \"What are all the ways this statement could be misrepresented?\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":108,"retweets_count":473,"likes_count":4356,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254086461483253760","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1254024537194324000,"conversation_id":"1254021265863647232","created_at":1587817722000,"date":"2020-04-25","time":"12:28:42","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Very successful startups often turn out in retrospect to have beaten the system in some sense. But that was not the path that led to them. Their founders weren't asking \"How can I beat the system?\" but rather \"What would be cool to build?\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":21,"retweets_count":32,"likes_count":475,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254024537194323969","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1254021265863647200,"conversation_id":"1254021265863647232","created_at":1587816943000,"date":"2020-04-25","time":"12:15:43","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"11 yo and his friends are always coming up with ideas for beating the system. I told him that the really big money is not in little tricks like that, but in making things that help people.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":72,"retweets_count":157,"likes_count":1645,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254021265863647232","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1253802639265071000,"conversation_id":"1253797748253614080","created_at":1587764818000,"date":"2020-04-24","time":"21:46:58","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If only there were just one.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":187,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1253802639265071104","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1253799852460343300,"conversation_id":"1253797748253614080","created_at":1587764153000,"date":"2020-04-24","time":"21:35:53","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When hiring a COO, for example, it's worth asking \"Could I imagine this person conspiring with investors to force me out?\" Maybe 99% of the time the answer will be no. But if you find you pause before answering, you may want to stop and think about that.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":35,"retweets_count":58,"likes_count":803,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1253799852460343296","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1253799628656586800,"conversation_id":"1253797748253614080","created_at":1587764100000,"date":"2020-04-24","time":"21:35:00","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The most common trick they play is seeming competent when they're not. This is arguably the most important skill within sufficiently large companies. (Which is why startups can exist at all.) But there are darker tricks too.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":50,"likes_count":706,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1253799628656586752","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1253797748253614000,"conversation_id":"1253797748253614080","created_at":1587763652000,"date":"2020-04-24","time":"21:27:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Usually inexperienced founders err too much on the side of paranoia. About keeping their idea secret for example. But they err too much in the other direction when hiring executive teams. \"C-suite executives\" can be really good at tricking you.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":41,"retweets_count":153,"likes_count":1331,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1253797748253614080","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1253761011288617000,"conversation_id":"1253761011288616970","created_at":1587754893000,"date":"2020-04-24","time":"19:01:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The young and the old don't understand each other perfectly, but the old understand the young better than the young understand the old. The old have been young, but the young haven't been old yet.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":206,"retweets_count":533,"likes_count":3719,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1253761011288616970","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1252235220939505700,"conversation_id":"1252235220939505673","created_at":1587391116000,"date":"2020-04-20","time":"13:58:36","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I'm teaching my 11 yo how to program. His great desire is to draw rude words on the screen. Ok. So we are gradually making a really powerful, well-designed (for Basic) rude word writer.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":37,"retweets_count":17,"likes_count":443,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1252235220939505673","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1252232424760598500,"conversation_id":"1252232424760598529","created_at":1587390450000,"date":"2020-04-20","time":"13:47:30","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Something I taught my 11 yo: Practice teaches you how to do things without having to think consciously about each step. So even when you \"already know how\" to do something by making a conscious effort, you can often reach another level of knowing how to do it through practice.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":25,"retweets_count":192,"likes_count":1443,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1252232424760598529","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1251894840499097600,"conversation_id":"1251894840499097602","created_at":1587309963000,"date":"2020-04-19","time":"15:26:03","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One thing the coronavirus is making clear is that if we do by heroic efforts manage to put the brakes on anthropogenic climate change, there will be lots of people who say \"See, it was never a problem.\"\n\nFortunately as a parent I'm used to this.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":80,"retweets_count":236,"likes_count":1962,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1251894840499097602","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1251611432338305000,"conversation_id":"1251611432338305024","created_at":1587242393000,"date":"2020-04-18","time":"20:39:53","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Something I explained to my 11 yo: When your brain tricks you, it's often because it's following a rule that made sense for most of our evolution. (The examples we were talking about were target fixation and the Monte Carlo fallacy.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":35,"retweets_count":80,"likes_count":886,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1251611432338305024","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1251538291767283700,"conversation_id":"1251537525145042953","created_at":1587224955000,"date":"2020-04-18","time":"15:49:15","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"That's one reason I'd never switch to Medium. It's convenient, sure, but if you care about ideas, you can't be at the mercy of censors. Especially when the censors are just random corporate employees. What can non-domain experts enforce except groupthink?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":62,"retweets_count":133,"likes_count":1606,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1251538291767283714","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1251537525145043000,"conversation_id":"1251537525145042953","created_at":1587224773000,"date":"2020-04-18","time":"15:46:13","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"A lot of people think using Medium is a substitute for having your own blog. But there's a critical difference: no moderator can delete your posts from your own blog.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":130,"retweets_count":484,"likes_count":3995,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1251537525145042953","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1251473864669966300,"conversation_id":"1251473251802513408","created_at":1587209595000,"date":"2020-04-18","time":"11:33:15","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I wish powerful Republicans would at least ask themselves, in their own heads: where do I draw the line? What would Trump have to do before I'd say, enough is enough?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":90,"retweets_count":55,"likes_count":898,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1251473864669966336","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1251085114567807000,"conversation_id":"1251082394972688390","created_at":1587116910000,"date":"2020-04-17","time":"09:48:30","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"There are multiple reasons people comment code, but one of them is the (often unacknowledged) feeling that they're not using a powerful enough language. \n\nSuch comments are in effect language design bug reports, and could be a source of ideas about how to make languages better.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":27,"retweets_count":31,"likes_count":315,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1251085114567806976","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1251082394972688400,"conversation_id":"1251082394972688390","created_at":1587116261000,"date":"2020-04-17","time":"09:37:41","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When writing programs in Basic (I'm teaching it to my son), I find I want to put a lot more comments in the code. The comments are roughly English translations of the program I'd write in a powerful language, and my source code is roughly the resulting object code.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":43,"retweets_count":34,"likes_count":415,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1251082394972688390","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1250840771751809000,"conversation_id":"1250840771751809024","created_at":1587058654000,"date":"2020-04-16","time":"17:37:34","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Something I explained to my 11 yo: The biggest division in work may be between jobs that involve making new stuff (science, engineering) and those that don't (administration, sales), and you'll be a lot happier if you end up on the side you're suited for.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":106,"retweets_count":309,"likes_count":2524,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1250840771751809024","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1250562054865461200,"conversation_id":"1250562054865461249","created_at":1586992202000,"date":"2020-04-15","time":"23:10:02","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One way to tell when you're using a programming language that's not powerful enough is by the amount of pattern in your source code.\n\nIf you do a lot of command-c command-v followed by changing variable names, you're probably writing macroexpansions by hand.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":36,"retweets_count":50,"likes_count":585,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1250562054865461249","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1250486136671285200,"conversation_id":"1250486136671285261","created_at":1586974102000,"date":"2020-04-15","time":"18:08:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Writing Basic programs (I'm teaching my son Basic) reminds me that there was once a time when I used to be impressed when my programs were long. Look at all the work I've done, I used to think.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":57,"retweets_count":44,"likes_count":861,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1250486136671285261","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1245293899599548400,"conversation_id":"1245292019318210560","created_at":1585736176000,"date":"2020-04-01","time":"10:16:16","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(Airbnb was founded about a year before. But they were dead at the point when they applied to YC in late 2008. They made the decision to resuscitate themselves and take another shot when everyone else was running for cover.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":55,"likes_count":609,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1245293899599548416","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1245293274115514400,"conversation_id":"1245292019318210560","created_at":1585736027000,"date":"2020-04-01","time":"10:13:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"That's why Y Combinator is funding startups this summer as usual, even if the batch has to be partly or wholly remote. YC knows this from experience. Airbnb was in the winter 2009 batch.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":18,"retweets_count":79,"likes_count":899,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1245293274115514369","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1245292019318210600,"conversation_id":"1245292019318210560","created_at":1585735728000,"date":"2020-04-01","time":"10:08:48","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Investors: Any startup that gets started during the next few months is disproportionately likely to succeed. Success depends most of all on determination, and imagine how determined you have to be to start a startup in the middle of a global pandemic.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":244,"retweets_count":1792,"likes_count":8407,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1245292019318210560","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1245258599208833000,"conversation_id":"1245258599208833024","created_at":1585727760000,"date":"2020-04-01","time":"07:56:00","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Prisons will be breeding grounds for Covid-19, and if you think this doesn't affect you, you're wrong. One of the most dangerous thing about this epidemic is the way it overloads ICUs, and we all share the same ICUs. We're all in this together.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":30,"retweets_count":134,"likes_count":1033,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1245258599208833024","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1244921240227283000,"conversation_id":"1244921240227282944","created_at":1585647327000,"date":"2020-03-31","time":"09:35:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"In your favorite programming language, how do you sort a list of the strings \"a\", \"bcd\", \"ef\", and \"ghij\" in descending order of length?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":399,"retweets_count":63,"likes_count":567,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1244921240227282944","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1244918745769877500,"conversation_id":"1244918745769877510","created_at":1585646733000,"date":"2020-03-31","time":"09:25:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If the US government wants to spend money to help people harmed by the coronavirus, surely the most obvious way is to pay their medical bills if they're uninsured and have to be treated for it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":39,"retweets_count":127,"likes_count":1132,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1244918745769877510","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1244690931946832000,"conversation_id":"1244690931946831876","created_at":1585592418000,"date":"2020-03-30","time":"18:20:18","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Funny how characteristically each country reacts to the coronavirus. China tracks its citizens' every move. Hungary becomes a dictatorship. The US gives money to businesses. The Japanese conceal the problem. The British bravely but stupidly seek herd immunity.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":408,"retweets_count":2512,"likes_count":11556,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1244690931946831876","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1244654069387534300,"conversation_id":"1244654069387534342","created_at":1585583629000,"date":"2020-03-30","time":"15:53:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It used to be that if you wanted broad exposure for something, you'd try to publish it in a newspaper. Now all that would achieve is to hide it from most people behind a paywall.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":24,"retweets_count":56,"likes_count":606,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1244654069387534342","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1244640366818705400,"conversation_id":"1244640366818705408","created_at":1585580362000,"date":"2020-03-30","time":"14:59:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Something I explained to Jessica today: It's possible to have code that works but that no one really understands. In fact, not just possible, but the default.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":78,"retweets_count":109,"likes_count":1309,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1244640366818705408","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1244610281650770000,"conversation_id":"1244610281650769923","created_at":1585573189000,"date":"2020-03-30","time":"12:59:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Remember when Worldometer had green rows for countries in which all Covid-19 cases had recovered?\n\nI can measure how much I underestimated Covid-19 at first by how long it took me to realize what a useless feature that was.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":10,"likes_count":267,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1244610281650769923","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1244550782311116800,"conversation_id":"1244542010431807488","created_at":1585559003000,"date":"2020-03-30","time":"09:03:23","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Perhaps one reason Italian Covid-19 deaths are understated is because individual doctors don't want to make people feel guilty for their whole lives for infecting grandma with it. So they just write \"cardiac arrest\" without inquiring further.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":29,"retweets_count":13,"likes_count":130,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1244550782311116801","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1244260484477587500,"conversation_id":"1244197914144051200","created_at":1585489791000,"date":"2020-03-29","time":"13:49:51","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I've decided to delete this, not because I've changed my mind about the point this image makes, or because I think any of the headlines in it are faked, but because (not having created it) I don't know for sure how representative it is.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":22,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1244260484477587456","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1244218594721923000,"conversation_id":"1244197914144051200","created_at":1585479804000,"date":"2020-03-29","time":"11:03:24","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Arguably it's not fair to expect journalists to understand all the topics they write about. They'd have to be polymaths to do that. But cases like this should remind us that they don't.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":31,"retweets_count":37,"likes_count":295,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1244218594721923073","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1244214627350786000,"conversation_id":"1244214627350786048","created_at":1585478858000,"date":"2020-03-29","time":"10:47:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I walk into the kitchen to find 7 yo with his hand in a bag of candy.\n\nMe: Did Mom say you could have some of those?\n\n7 yo: You saw nothing.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":53,"retweets_count":75,"likes_count":1914,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1244214627350786048","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1244191041244233700,"conversation_id":"1244191041244233728","created_at":1585473234000,"date":"2020-03-29","time":"09:13:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"I ask you one question, and I get a lecture.\"\n\n— 7 yo","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":101,"retweets_count":284,"likes_count":4869,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1244191041244233728","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1243899123641827300,"conversation_id":"1243898228304740353","created_at":1585403636000,"date":"2020-03-28","time":"13:53:56","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"You might think Republican leaders would privately urge Trump to get his act together. Especially since so many of them are over 60. I don't know why they haven't. Perhaps they know it wouldn't work.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":47,"retweets_count":27,"likes_count":484,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1243899123641827328","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
