{"id":1228233906874306600,"conversation_id":"1228233906874306561","created_at":1581668757000,"date":"2020-02-14","time":"08:25:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you do or say something embarrassing when meeting a famous person, take comfort in the fact that they are about 1/100th as likely to remember it as you are.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":47,"retweets_count":60,"likes_count":1054,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1228233906874306561","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":1227936918052262000,"conversation_id":"1227936918052261891","created_at":1581597949000,"date":"2020-02-13","time":"12:45:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hypothesis: One reason Democratic candidates can't jettison the far left in order to be what James Carville called a \"majoritarian party\" is that these people make up their campaign staffs.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":40,"retweets_count":29,"likes_count":458,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1227936918052261891","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":1227926218487533600,"conversation_id":"1227926218487533569","created_at":1581595398000,"date":"2020-02-13","time":"12:03:18","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Back in high school I told my dad, 'I'm going to have a computer someday.' And he said that it cost as much as a house — the downpayment on a house. And I said, 'Well, I'll live in an apartment.'\"\n\n— Steve Wozniak","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":146,"likes_count":1255,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1227926218487533569","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":1227913270599782400,"conversation_id":"1227913270599782400","created_at":1581592311000,"date":"2020-02-13","time":"11:11:51","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"In many articles I see, it's sufficient to read the first sentence of each paragraph. My goal when writing is to make that not work.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":66,"retweets_count":98,"likes_count":1338,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1227913270599782400","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":1227606069343596500,"conversation_id":"1227606069343596544","created_at":1581519069000,"date":"2020-02-12","time":"14:51:09","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"A startup reported their ARR has reached $99.9m. I know two things from this: their ARR, and that they don't fudge their numbers.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":40,"retweets_count":86,"likes_count":1447,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1227606069343596544","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":1227570281952227300,"conversation_id":"1227570159772151809","created_at":1581510537000,"date":"2020-02-12","time":"12:28:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's surprising how often the right thing to do is nothing.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":25,"retweets_count":92,"likes_count":594,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1227570281952227329","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":1227570159772151800,"conversation_id":"1227570159772151809","created_at":1581510507000,"date":"2020-02-12","time":"12:28:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One surprising thing I've learned from being a parent is that kids often know the words for things they're not supposed to know about, without really knowing what they mean. The solution is to do nothing. The last thing you want to do is ask \"Do you know what that means?\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":39,"retweets_count":36,"likes_count":551,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1227570159772151809","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":1226974295395623000,"conversation_id":"1226974295395622913","created_at":1581368442000,"date":"2020-02-10","time":"21:00:42","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"It tastes like that cough medicine that I usually have that I *really* like.\"\n\n— 7 yo after tasting red wine\n\n(I'm now going to check the ingredients on that cough medicine.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":18,"likes_count":464,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1226974295395622913","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":1226887866128707600,"conversation_id":"1226869673792176130","created_at":1581347836000,"date":"2020-02-10","time":"15:17:16","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Sorry, that is actual me.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":58,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1226887866128707586","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":1226884867897614300,"conversation_id":"1226884195387047936","created_at":1581347121000,"date":"2020-02-10","time":"15:05:21","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Conversely, the worst thing you can do is say something controversial in one tweet, and then put the qualifying statement in the succeeding one. To the mob it will be as if the qualification never happened.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":16,"likes_count":388,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1226884867897614341","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":1226884195387048000,"conversation_id":"1226884195387047936","created_at":1581346961000,"date":"2020-02-10","time":"15:02:41","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One trick for avoiding Twitter mobs is to try to arrange that no individual tweet is exciting as the subject of a quote-tweet. E.g. mention the topic in one tweet, then say the dangerous thing about it in the succeeding tweet, but merely using a pronoun.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":38,"retweets_count":82,"likes_count":1050,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1226884195387047936","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":1226405675284271000,"conversation_id":"1226405675284271104","created_at":1581232873000,"date":"2020-02-09","time":"07:21:13","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"An essay I'm writing got so long that I decided to turn it into a book. Now instead of complaining that my essay is too long, people will praise me for writing such a concise book.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":108,"retweets_count":212,"likes_count":4981,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1226405675284271104","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":1226072699300171800,"conversation_id":"1226070056574029824","created_at":1581153485000,"date":"2020-02-08","time":"09:18:05","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Why is the cutoff $200 million a year? Can a company make $50 million a year without cheating? How do they know?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":45,"retweets_count":51,"likes_count":716,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1226072699300171787","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":1226070056574029800,"conversation_id":"1226070056574029824","created_at":1581152855000,"date":"2020-02-08","time":"09:07:35","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Politicians who say that no one can become a billionaire without cheating are effectively saying that no company can make $200 million a year in profit without cheating.\n\n(A startup making $200m might be worth around $7b, and a founder might own 15% = $1b.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":160,"retweets_count":517,"likes_count":3272,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1226070056574029824","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":1225821035376849000,"conversation_id":"1225821035376848897","created_at":1581093484000,"date":"2020-02-07","time":"16:38:04","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"In programming, writing, and investing, I've found one of the most useful questions you can ask is \"Is there a pattern?\" What macro am I looking at the expansions of?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":24,"retweets_count":139,"likes_count":1079,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1225821035376848897","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":1225812114679509000,"conversation_id":"1225812114679508993","created_at":1581091357000,"date":"2020-02-07","time":"16:02:37","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Is there anywhere people violate Occam's razor more than when attributing motives to others?\n\nWhen attributing motives, ask \"Is there a simpler explanation?\" Whatever you come up with is more likely to be correct.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":51,"retweets_count":104,"likes_count":693,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1225812114679508993","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":1225764602086076400,"conversation_id":"1225764602086076416","created_at":1581080029000,"date":"2020-02-07","time":"12:53:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Venture debt is like a delicious sandwich that only costs ten cents, but occasionally explodes in your face. \n\nIf I were running a startup, I don't think I'd ever take it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":83,"retweets_count":181,"likes_count":1210,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1225764602086076416","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":1225757284485279700,"conversation_id":"1225757284485279745","created_at":1581078284000,"date":"2020-02-07","time":"12:24:44","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Unless they're based on numbers, lists of \"the x most y people in z\" never are.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":16,"likes_count":132,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1225757284485279745","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":1225468171676782600,"conversation_id":"1225467446850658304","created_at":1581009354000,"date":"2020-02-06","time":"17:15:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If founders today feel clueless, believe me, you cannot possibly complete with founders in Boston in the 1990s.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":16,"likes_count":441,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1225468171676782595","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":1225467446850658300,"conversation_id":"1225467446850658304","created_at":1581009182000,"date":"2020-02-06","time":"17:13:02","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I first understood how unusual startup growth was when I explained to my then girlfriend's father that our growth rate was about 15%.\n\nA year? he asked.\n\nNo, a month, I replied.\n\nHe was astounded. I had never realized it was unusual. I didn't know what normal growth rates were.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":34,"retweets_count":174,"likes_count":1975,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1225467446850658304","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":1225353169045262300,"conversation_id":"1225353169045262336","created_at":1580981936000,"date":"2020-02-06","time":"09:38:56","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The best defense against ideology may be the concept of a \"bien pensant,\" someone who believes exactly what's considered appropriate among their peers. No one aware of that concept would want to be one.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":46,"retweets_count":95,"likes_count":638,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1225353169045262336","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":1225026749718782000,"conversation_id":"1225025569324195841","created_at":1580904111000,"date":"2020-02-05","time":"12:01:51","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The counterintuitiveness of this principle, which is easily misrepresented as mere stupidity, is exactly what makes it so valuable.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":14,"likes_count":254,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1225026749718781954","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":1225025569324195800,"conversation_id":"1225025569324195841","created_at":1580903830000,"date":"2020-02-05","time":"11:57:10","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The fact that \"Move fast and break stuff\" has been adopted by tech haters as a stick to beat tech with doesn't make it bad advice. It's the right thing to do in many situations.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":55,"retweets_count":98,"likes_count":925,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1225025569324195841","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":1225012830610522000,"conversation_id":"1225012830610522112","created_at":1580900793000,"date":"2020-02-05","time":"11:06:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The advice I give to founders raising money for the first time — to first ask yourself \"are we actually a good investment?\" and answer honestly — also applies to later rounds.\n\nDon't sell. Tell the truth, and let investors read it through you.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":25,"retweets_count":174,"likes_count":1376,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1225012830610522112","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":1225003455225397200,"conversation_id":"1224946315584581633","created_at":1580898557000,"date":"2020-02-05","time":"10:29:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Some of each.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":8,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1225003455225397248","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":1224646190547001300,"conversation_id":"1224645595811414021","created_at":1580813379000,"date":"2020-02-04","time":"10:49:39","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"New hires may not see the need to delight customers. If they came from established companies, the whole concept may be alien to them. But the founders know this was the original source of their growth.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":71,"likes_count":600,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1224646190547001344","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":1224645595811414000,"conversation_id":"1224645595811414021","created_at":1580813237000,"date":"2020-02-04","time":"10:47:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Newly founded startups have no choice but to delight their customers. They don't have enough power to maltreat them.\n\nOne of the most important things the founders can do as the startup grows is to continue to insist on delighting customers.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":53,"retweets_count":532,"likes_count":2740,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1224645595811414021","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":1224622832417747000,"conversation_id":"1224622832417746945","created_at":1580807810000,"date":"2020-02-04","time":"09:16:50","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Scientists, essayists, and startup founders are all looking for anomalies: the places where our model of the world doesn't match the world.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":38,"retweets_count":185,"likes_count":1102,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1224622832417746945","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":1224330920192245800,"conversation_id":"1224330920192245761","created_at":1580738212000,"date":"2020-02-03","time":"13:56:52","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Beware of lists in which each word begins with the same letter. This technique is in effect an error-assuring code. The longer the list, the less likely the words are the right ones.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":25,"retweets_count":20,"likes_count":261,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1224330920192245761","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":1222898837330657300,"conversation_id":"1222898837330657286","created_at":1580396777000,"date":"2020-01-30","time":"15:06:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you want to have lots of ideas, walk up mountains. That sounds like a metaphor, but I mean it literally. It's like going running, except you're going so much slower that you don't have to use any of your brain to watch where you're going.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":89,"retweets_count":313,"likes_count":2694,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1222898837330657286","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":1218954705537323000,"conversation_id":"1218954705537323013","created_at":1579456423000,"date":"2020-01-19","time":"17:53:43","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Awkwardly, one of the taboos among the US left is talking about how many things are taboo to talk about.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":30,"retweets_count":55,"likes_count":786,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1218954705537323013","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":1218512662260256800,"conversation_id":"1218512662260256768","created_at":1579351032000,"date":"2020-01-18","time":"12:37:12","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"My 7 yo grades my bedtime stories, and though I should know better, I find these grades highly motivating. I'm still on a high from getting an A+ on last night's. And a B- I got several months ago still rankles.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":52,"retweets_count":59,"likes_count":1667,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1218512662260256768","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":1218166773595496400,"conversation_id":"1218166773595496450","created_at":1579268565000,"date":"2020-01-17","time":"13:42:45","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"New game with 7 yo: Deliver Star Wars characters' lines in different accents. Funniest so far is Darth Vader with a Welsh accent.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":119,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1218166773595496450","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":1217724728644862000,"conversation_id":"1217724728644861953","created_at":1579163174000,"date":"2020-01-16","time":"08:26:14","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's easy to ridicule overconfidence. And indeed, it has its disadvantages. But it's just what you need if you want to take on a problem most rational people would conclude was too hard.\n\nFools dare where angels fear to tread, and sometimes they win.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":75,"retweets_count":597,"likes_count":2915,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1217724728644861953","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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