{"id":1162563645408080000,"conversation_id":"1162561488915091456","created_at":1566011747000,"date":"2019-08-17","time":"03:15:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The term \"silent majority\" was popularized by Nixon. Then it meant people who were silent because they didn't care enough about politics to speak out. It's pretty chilling that it can now be used to mean people who are afraid to express their opinions lest a mob come after them.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":25,"retweets_count":50,"likes_count":437,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1162563645408079873","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":1160775309722996700,"conversation_id":"1160775309722996736","created_at":1565585374000,"date":"2019-08-12","time":"04:49:34","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Something I didn't realize when I was a kid: most books are bad. I used to think \"This author must be an expert on x. After all, he wrote a book on it.\" That is not how it works at all. Some books are much better than others, and it takes a conscious effort to find them.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":149,"retweets_count":891,"likes_count":5601,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1160775309722996736","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":1160448347045392400,"conversation_id":"1160445442464739328","created_at":1565507420000,"date":"2019-08-11","time":"07:10:20","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's hard to think of a YC company that was killed by being too cheap. But the number killed by spending too much seems endless.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":121,"likes_count":1057,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1160448347045392384","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":1160447745724805000,"conversation_id":"1160445442464739328","created_at":1565507277000,"date":"2019-08-11","time":"07:07:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you're a young founder, VCs have a powerful weapon to convince you to spend faster. They can tell you it's amateurish to be cheap. That you're thinking small. Don't listen to them. Most famous founders were cheap.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":182,"likes_count":1234,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1160447745724805120","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":1160446857270579200,"conversation_id":"1160445442464739328","created_at":1565507065000,"date":"2019-08-11","time":"07:04:25","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you raise from VCs, most will pressure you to spend faster. Partly because, as money people, they think money solves problems. But partly for a more sinister reason: so they can buy more of the company when you burn through this money and need to raise more.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":124,"likes_count":943,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1160446857270579200","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":1160445442464739300,"conversation_id":"1160445442464739328","created_at":1565506728000,"date":"2019-08-11","time":"06:58:48","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"A simple heuristic that will save inexperienced startup founders from several different types of mistakes: be really cheap. This will save you from hiring too many people, from renting a fancy office, and from growing by buying users instead of making great things.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":98,"retweets_count":1203,"likes_count":4989,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1160445442464739328","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":1149613309160648700,"conversation_id":"1149613309160648704","created_at":1562924146000,"date":"2019-07-12","time":"09:35:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Trying to grow trains your product.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":43,"likes_count":242,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1149613309160648704","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":1149335388563132400,"conversation_id":"1149335388563132417","created_at":1562857884000,"date":"2019-07-11","time":"15:11:24","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"At Viaweb we had a lot of users named John, so we adopted the convention of calling the contact for a given account \"John <accountname>.\" This was not uninfluenced by Buckaroo Banzai. I think it made us more tolerant of users' quirks to think of them as space aliens.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":44,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1149335388563132417","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":1148988607354626000,"conversation_id":"1148973797602557953","created_at":1562775205000,"date":"2019-07-10","time":"16:13:25","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Not formally, but I visited 42 and was impressed and tweeted about it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":3,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1148988607354626053","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":1148978149386063900,"conversation_id":"1148973797602557953","created_at":1562772712000,"date":"2019-07-10","time":"15:31:52","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Yeah, but I also said \"For better or worse that's never going to be more than a thought experiment. We could never stand it.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":7,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1148978149386063873","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":1148973797602558000,"conversation_id":"1148973797602557953","created_at":1562771674000,"date":"2019-07-10","time":"15:14:34","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Something Lambda School shares with YC: they can't accept many more students than they can get hired, just as YC can't accept many more startups than they can get funded. I can tell you from experience that this constraint is wonderfully focusing.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":68,"likes_count":882,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1148973797602557953","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":1148970124415815700,"conversation_id":"1148970124415815680","created_at":1562770799000,"date":"2019-07-10","time":"14:59:59","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Secretly, his cat supported Bayern Munich.\"\n\n– from a story by 7 yo","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":9,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":152,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1148970124415815680","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":1148899779889569800,"conversation_id":"1148895114657456128","created_at":1562754027000,"date":"2019-07-10","time":"10:20:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If this theory is correct, the conventional investor meeting begins in failure mode. \n\nI wonder how many founders dutifully walk investors through their deck, thinking they're doing a good job, and never realize the meeting began in failure mode and never left it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":19,"retweets_count":18,"likes_count":239,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1148899779889569792","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":1148898355336163300,"conversation_id":"1148895114657456128","created_at":1562753688000,"date":"2019-07-10","time":"10:14:48","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Whereas if the default format is founder-explains-slides, the investor can switch into investor-asks-questions mode at will, whenever they're sufficiently interested.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":10,"likes_count":81,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1148898355336163329","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":1148897540856864800,"conversation_id":"1148895114657456128","created_at":1562753493000,"date":"2019-07-10","time":"10:11:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When I meet startups I ask them questions. But I could see that format would be a problem if we'd scheduled an hour-long meeting and I knew after 10 minutes that I didn't want to invest. I'd have to keep making up questions for another 50 minutes.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":9,"likes_count":111,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1148897540856864769","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":1148895114657456100,"conversation_id":"1148895114657456128","created_at":1562752915000,"date":"2019-07-10","time":"10:01:55","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I don't understand how investors can stand having a startup pitch them with a slide deck. I get glassy-eyed as soon as I see a slide. I wonder if that's the point — that this format gives investors the option to check out if the pitch is boring?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":61,"retweets_count":79,"likes_count":632,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1148895114657456128","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":1148246768607486000,"conversation_id":"1148246768607485954","created_at":1562598337000,"date":"2019-07-08","time":"15:05:37","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Something I taught my 10 yo son and his friend today:\n\nThe way most people who are really good at something got so good at it was by (a) caring a lot about it and (b) practicing a lot.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":77,"retweets_count":821,"likes_count":3970,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1148246768607485954","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":1147507941156839400,"conversation_id":"1147505767039287296","created_at":1562422187000,"date":"2019-07-06","time":"14:09:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If I ask what the difference is between this and the skills I would have listed, it's that the latter were taught (or at least measured) in school. But how could you teach noticing anomalies in a way that could be turned into a grade?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":23,"retweets_count":16,"likes_count":285,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1147507941156839426","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":1147117470207098900,"conversation_id":"1147115857715372032","created_at":1562329091000,"date":"2019-07-05","time":"12:18:11","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The worst mistake refugees from big companies make when starting startups is probably to divide functions too much. They'll have separate people doing sales, marketing, and product development. Whereas in a startup it's ideal if one person does all three initially.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":78,"retweets_count":283,"likes_count":1874,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1147117470207098880","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":1145439653639741400,"conversation_id":"1145439653639741441","created_at":1561929069000,"date":"2019-06-30","time":"21:11:09","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Me: What's your motto?\n\n7 yo: (thinks) \"When laughter comes, it brings good times.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":47,"likes_count":607,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1145439653639741441","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":1144940659566100500,"conversation_id":"1144940659566100485","created_at":1561810099000,"date":"2019-06-29","time":"12:08:19","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"A revealing question to ask about people: could you describe them as having a twinkle in their eye?\n\nIf you try asking yourself this about people you know, you may notice some patterns.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":45,"retweets_count":97,"likes_count":865,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1144940659566100485","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":1143100163399065600,"conversation_id":"1143100163399065600","created_at":1561371291000,"date":"2019-06-24","time":"10:14:51","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"While politicians propose ways to treat the symptoms of the student loan crisis, Lambda School is figuring out how to cure the underlying disease.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":43,"retweets_count":154,"likes_count":1444,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1143100163399065600","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":1142505660069949400,"conversation_id":"1142505660069949440","created_at":1561229550000,"date":"2019-06-22","time":"18:52:30","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Well-meaning teachers encourage my kids to use more \"vocabulary\" words in their writing. I tell them that on this one point they can ignore their teachers, because the best writing uses the simplest possible words.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":266,"retweets_count":380,"likes_count":3005,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1142505660069949440","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":1141845946474664000,"conversation_id":"1141845946474663936","created_at":1561072262000,"date":"2019-06-20","time":"23:11:02","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"At dinner someone asked \"Hey Siri. How old is Joe Biden?\"\n\nI expected Siri to answer \"I get that often. Joe Biden is 76.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":115,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1141845946474663936","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":1141481620760928300,"conversation_id":"1141481620760928256","created_at":1560985400000,"date":"2019-06-19","time":"23:03:20","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I thought it was a mistake to name Boom \"Boom,\" but I was wrong.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":163,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1141481620760928256","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":1141475733308629000,"conversation_id":"1141471561242816519","created_at":1560983997000,"date":"2019-06-19","time":"22:39:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Maybe you'll be the first to make it work. But you should at least know whether your idea is the never-thought-of type or the never-works type. And if it's the latter, you should be able to explain what everyone else who tried it got wrong that you've gotten right.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":49,"retweets_count":158,"likes_count":1374,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1141475733308628992","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":1141471561242816500,"conversation_id":"1141471561242816519","created_at":1560983002000,"date":"2019-06-19","time":"22:23:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"You have an idea. You check whether it already exists. It doesn't. Good sign, right? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe you're the first to think of it. But maybe it's an idea people think of all the time, and the reason it doesn't exist is that it never works.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":114,"retweets_count":619,"likes_count":2847,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1141471561242816519","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":1141291398542610400,"conversation_id":"1141291398542610433","created_at":1560940048000,"date":"2019-06-19","time":"10:27:28","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The more formatting your email has, the less I want to read it. A short, plain text email reads as a message to me. If you use bulleted lists and different typefaces, it looks like spam.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":68,"retweets_count":147,"likes_count":1329,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1141291398542610433","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":1140569722267873300,"conversation_id":"1140569722267873280","created_at":1560767987000,"date":"2019-06-17","time":"10:39:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The idea of spending (small amounts of) \"quality time\" with your kids is dangerously mistaken, because the best moments happen at completely random times. You not only can't predict them, you may not even know they've happened.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":44,"retweets_count":213,"likes_count":1474,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1140569722267873280","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":1140546788602105900,"conversation_id":"1140546788602105856","created_at":1560762519000,"date":"2019-06-17","time":"09:08:39","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"A lot of scientific epiphanies are isomorphic to the snappy retort that you think of too late. But in science you can actually use them.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":105,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1140546788602105856","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":1140539679089070100,"conversation_id":"1140539679089070080","created_at":1560760824000,"date":"2019-06-17","time":"08:40:24","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Me: The guy who wrote Minecraft made a billion dollars from it.\n\n7 yo: He deserves his money. It's great!","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":51,"likes_count":954,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1140539679089070080","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":1140538635252580400,"conversation_id":"1140538635252580353","created_at":1560760575000,"date":"2019-06-17","time":"08:36:15","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When I teach my kids about popular delusions, I teach them not just that they're false, but more importantly, why people want to believe they're true. Then when new delusions arise they'll recognize the pattern.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":32,"retweets_count":183,"likes_count":1085,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1140538635252580353","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":1139928273440432100,"conversation_id":"1139928273440432128","created_at":1560615053000,"date":"2019-06-15","time":"16:10:53","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Call out\" is just a synonym for \"attack\" that assumes the attacker is correct.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":37,"retweets_count":252,"likes_count":1414,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1139928273440432128","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":1139572303858155500,"conversation_id":"1139572303858155520","created_at":1560530184000,"date":"2019-06-14","time":"16:36:24","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When I was younger I assumed perfection came from people's desire to do things well. But it can also come from curiosity: if you're curious what the perfect version of something would look like, sometimes the only way to find out is to make it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":32,"retweets_count":416,"likes_count":1939,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1139572303858155520","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":1139531415647924200,"conversation_id":"1139530816697053184","created_at":1560520435000,"date":"2019-06-14","time":"13:53:55","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Making fun of Trump's solecisms certainly doesn't hurt his political support. After all, his base is the people whose (grammatical and political) solecisms you make fun of, and the fact that you do is a significant part of their motivation for supporting him.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":44,"likes_count":303,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1139531415647924227","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":1139530816697053200,"conversation_id":"1139530816697053184","created_at":1560520292000,"date":"2019-06-14","time":"13:51:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Ridiculing Trump's solecisms may make you feel better, but it doesn't harm him, and may even help him. Every bit of attention you draw to them draws attention away from things he really doesn't want people looking at, like his business dealings before the presidency.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":23,"retweets_count":62,"likes_count":457,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1139530816697053184","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":1139285090687696900,"conversation_id":"1139285090687696897","created_at":1560461707000,"date":"2019-06-13","time":"21:35:07","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Originally developed as a way of making more efficient and economic use of a very expensive computer, time-sharing had the surprising side effect of drastically reducing the amount of time it took to get a program working.\"\n\n– Warren Teitelman","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":20,"likes_count":176,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1139285090687696897","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":1139273636819476500,"conversation_id":"1139221691006144514","created_at":1560458976000,"date":"2019-06-13","time":"20:49:36","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I just mean I treat them as peers.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":24,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1139273636819476480","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":1139221691006144500,"conversation_id":"1139221691006144514","created_at":1560446591000,"date":"2019-06-13","time":"17:23:11","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I talk to my kids as if they were naive colleagues. I think they learn a lot this way, and if not, it at least seems fairly harmless.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":38,"retweets_count":44,"likes_count":666,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1139221691006144514","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":1139219067699650600,"conversation_id":"1139219067699650562","created_at":1560445966000,"date":"2019-06-13","time":"17:12:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Explained to my 10 yo why ambitious people tend to have a higher ratio of ability/arrogance at 25 than 21. Real-world tests simultaneously decrease their arrogance and increase their ability.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":52,"retweets_count":277,"likes_count":1926,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1139219067699650562","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":1138742152022941700,"conversation_id":"1138735580177731584","created_at":1560332260000,"date":"2019-06-12","time":"09:37:40","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(I know I'll get hell from trolls for suggesting a startup might fix healthcare. \"Tech bro thinks startups can fix all the world's problems.\" But if I can set off a spark in the brains of a handful of people who might drill through such dams, I'll take that deal.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":40,"retweets_count":22,"likes_count":349,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1138742152022941697","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":1138739748472836100,"conversation_id":"1138735580177731584","created_at":1560331687000,"date":"2019-06-12","time":"09:28:07","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"What other problems can be solved by boring a hole through the dam? Could you fix healthcare? On the face of it, it seems unlikely. But I didn't think higher education could be fixed either before I saw Lambda School.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":24,"retweets_count":19,"likes_count":213,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1138739748472836097","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":1138739048846168000,"conversation_id":"1138735580177731584","created_at":1560331520000,"date":"2019-06-12","time":"09:25:20","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Lambda School may not be a complete solution to the brokenness of US higher education, but it's an immediate one. And the hole in the dam is still small, but it's growing at startup rates.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":11,"likes_count":158,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1138739048846168065","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":1138738346522529800,"conversation_id":"1138735580177731584","created_at":1560331353000,"date":"2019-06-12","time":"09:22:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The source of the brokenness of US higher education is a mixture of social custom, institutional rigidity, and government policy that would be extremely hard to unravel. But Lambda School just bored a hole through the dam.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":12,"likes_count":128,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1138738346522529794","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":1138737273078538200,"conversation_id":"1138735580177731584","created_at":1560331097000,"date":"2019-06-12","time":"09:18:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The opportunity that comes from brokenness = the number of people affected times how much it hurts them. For example, US higher education is massively broken. In exchange for degrees that are often worthless, millions of people get into debt that will burden them for decades.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":18,"likes_count":151,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1138737273078538240","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":1138735580177731600,"conversation_id":"1138735580177731584","created_at":1560330693000,"date":"2019-06-12","time":"09:11:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Brokenness = potential energy. Anything badly broken is a dam holding back a lake of unrealized desires. A startup that can bore a hole through such a dam can liberate all that energy.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":33,"retweets_count":211,"likes_count":1072,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1138735580177731584","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":1138423543073595400,"conversation_id":"1138423543073595393","created_at":1560256298000,"date":"2019-06-11","time":"12:31:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When you write the word \"life,\" resist the urge to write \"itself\" after it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":20,"retweets_count":20,"likes_count":312,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1138423543073595393","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":1138113145325674500,"conversation_id":"1138113145325674496","created_at":1560182293000,"date":"2019-06-10","time":"15:58:13","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Something I taught a 7 yo today: \n\nMost of making things is figuring out why they don't work.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":325,"likes_count":2110,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1138113145325674496","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":1138054468103213000,"conversation_id":"1138054468103213056","created_at":1560168303000,"date":"2019-06-10","time":"12:05:03","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"For many kinds of work there are three phases:\n\n1. When nothing's working.\n\n2. When it's working, but only your initial users/audience realize that.\n\n3. When everyone knows it works.\n\nPhase 2 is the most fun. Enjoy it while it lasts, because you'll miss it in phase 3.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":19,"retweets_count":240,"likes_count":1354,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1138054468103213056","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":1138013356743450600,"conversation_id":"1138013356743450625","created_at":1560158502000,"date":"2019-06-10","time":"09:21:42","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's common for a startup to be confused initially with some category of lame predecessors. It seems to be harmless and may even be beneficial. It doesn't deter users, who see you're different, but keeps you off everyone else's radar screen.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":43,"likes_count":421,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1138013356743450625","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":""}
