{"id":1138008147648548900,"conversation_id":"1138008147648548864","created_at":1560157260000,"date":"2019-06-10","time":"09:01:00","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Ambition has been the driving force behind nearly all the best work of the world. In particular, practically all substantial contributions to human happiness have been made by ambitious men.\"\n\n– G. H. Hardy","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":35,"retweets_count":282,"likes_count":1232,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1138008147648548864","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":1137322425723629600,"conversation_id":"1137322425723629568","created_at":1559993771000,"date":"2019-06-08","time":"11:36:11","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When I was in college, I thought that with another 100x more development (which I planned to do myself), SHRDLU would pass the Turing Test. \n\nIn grad school I realized that what SHRDLU proved was that there was a subset of natural language that was a formal language.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":15,"likes_count":170,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1137322425723629568","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":1137314248206487600,"conversation_id":"1137312129739034626","created_at":1559991821000,"date":"2019-06-08","time":"11:03:41","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The idea hunters will often find themselves engaged with controversialists, though, and they tend to lose (in the short term) to the clever, energetic ones, because for them controversy is the goal, whereas the idea hunters want to get back to thinking.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":46,"likes_count":378,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1137314248206487552","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":1136964605190824000,"conversation_id":"1136962504343662592","created_at":1559908460000,"date":"2019-06-07","time":"11:54:20","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If the root of the problem is that you need partisan articles to draw people from Twitter into the top of your funnel, though, then lower-friction payment methods won't help, and in fact might make things worse.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":107,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1136964605190823936","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":1135224291501494300,"conversation_id":"1135223197362720768","created_at":1559493537000,"date":"2019-06-02","time":"16:38:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I know from personal experience that the two-phase approach works in writing, programming, and art (draft = prototype = sketch). Does it work in most fields? And if not, what defines the line between fields where it works and the ones where it doesn't?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":72,"retweets_count":64,"likes_count":726,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1135224291501494272","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":1135107744938319900,"conversation_id":"1135106854848212992","created_at":1559465750000,"date":"2019-06-02","time":"08:55:50","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The thing that stuck out most as mistaken is when I said that the popular and nerdy kids were the way they were because they'd been trained that way by their parents. Now that I've had kids, I realize more comes from nature and less from nurture than I thought.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":35,"retweets_count":19,"likes_count":505,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1135107744938319873","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":1134762203880546300,"conversation_id":"1134755140802633730","created_at":1559383366000,"date":"2019-06-01","time":"10:02:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The good news is, if we establish a general antibody against things you want that don't make you happy, it will work against many different smokings simultaneously. The bad news is that it will need to.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":5,"likes_count":124,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1134762203880546304","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":1134759313170411500,"conversation_id":"1134755140802633730","created_at":1559382677000,"date":"2019-06-01","time":"09:51:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If so, we'll need (and we'll surely develop) social antibodies to protect us. E.g. we'll have to teach kids explicitly to avoid the kind of things you want, but don't make you happy.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":10,"likes_count":79,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1134759313170411521","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":1134758031672205300,"conversation_id":"1134755140802633730","created_at":1559382372000,"date":"2019-06-01","time":"09:46:12","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It may be inevitable that in the limit case, what you want and what makes you happy diverge completely, simply because x can be optimized more effectively if you're not also trying to optimize some orthogonal y.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":50,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1134758031672205313","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":1134059719126134800,"conversation_id":"1134058742910246912","created_at":1559215881000,"date":"2019-05-30","time":"11:31:21","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The founders, who've been the same people all along, find their personas have been switched from \"plucky young founder trying to make new idea work\" to \"evil plutocrat bent on destroying the world.\"\n\nWhatever people can get attention by portraying you as, you'll be portrayed as.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":69,"retweets_count":108,"likes_count":991,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1134059719126134785","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":1134035257521557500,"conversation_id":"1134035257521557505","created_at":1559210049000,"date":"2019-05-30","time":"09:54:09","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Trick that delights 7 year olds (n=1): Show how you can draw a pyramid with any shape base by drawing a polygon, drawing a dot above it, and drawing a line from each corner of the polygon to the dot.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":10,"likes_count":115,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1134035257521557505","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":1133347507625484300,"conversation_id":"1133347507625484288","created_at":1559046077000,"date":"2019-05-28","time":"12:21:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Biographies of famous people often mention how they worked at night and on weekends, as if this were painful for them. But if you like what you do, nights and weekends are the best time to work. That's when you get those wonderful big blocks of time without interruptions.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":85,"retweets_count":1030,"likes_count":4768,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1133347507625484288","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":1133285829646979100,"conversation_id":"1133285829646979072","created_at":1559031371000,"date":"2019-05-28","time":"08:16:11","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"There are people who fix problems and people who complain about problems, and the two sets are remarkably disjoint.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":58,"retweets_count":541,"likes_count":2130,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1133285829646979072","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":1132259451308847100,"conversation_id":"1132259451308847105","created_at":1558786664000,"date":"2019-05-25","time":"12:17:44","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One thing Viaweb and Y Combinator had in common was that there was no name for what they were when we started them. A small sample size, I know, but if there's no name for what you're building, that may be a good sign rather than a bad one.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":29,"retweets_count":82,"likes_count":745,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1132259451308847105","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":1132255062158446600,"conversation_id":"1132255062158446592","created_at":1558785617000,"date":"2019-05-25","time":"12:00:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I still remember how excited I was the first time I saw a url in an ad. It was in 1995, on the side of a bus, as I was walking up Second Avenue in NYC. I thought \"It's happening!\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":37,"retweets_count":94,"likes_count":1337,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1132255062158446592","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":1132054142984364000,"conversation_id":"1132054142984364033","created_at":1558737714000,"date":"2019-05-24","time":"22:41:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The most impressive feature of The Double Helix is how much Watson admits he didn't know. He's constantly talking about papers he couldn't understand and important concepts he didn't grasp.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":17,"retweets_count":20,"likes_count":364,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1132054142984364033","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":1131612369413648400,"conversation_id":"1131555457225691138","created_at":1558632387000,"date":"2019-05-23","time":"17:26:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Actually I've learned a lot from various mistakes YC startups have made. At this point I'm a walking encyclopedia of startup mistakes.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":30,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1131612369413648384","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":1130598679881166800,"conversation_id":"1130598679881166849","created_at":1558390705000,"date":"2019-05-20","time":"22:18:25","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One sign of a startup idea is the word \"shouldn't.\" If you find yourself saying \"users shouldn't have to do x\" or \"we shouldn't have had to build y,\" it's often a sign of a missing startup. And if you're the one saying \"shouldn't,\" that you would be a good person to start it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":48,"retweets_count":395,"likes_count":2184,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1130598679881166849","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":1130112125773459500,"conversation_id":"1130111139621343237","created_at":1558274701000,"date":"2019-05-19","time":"14:05:01","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Similarly, it's more impressive to seem a promising but inexperienced founder than to seem like a bad imitation of one who's already successful.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":47,"likes_count":417,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1130112125773459457","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":1130111591175917600,"conversation_id":"1130111139621343237","created_at":1558274574000,"date":"2019-05-19","time":"14:02:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Most founders overvalue their pitch and undervalue their brain. You think your deck is great, because you spent so long on it. Whereas your brain, you think, is a noob's. But to experienced investors your deck is <deck> and your noob brain is a fascinating work in progress.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":37,"likes_count":333,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1130111591175917568","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":1130111383356543000,"conversation_id":"1130111139621343237","created_at":1558274524000,"date":"2019-05-19","time":"14:02:04","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(Later stage, the most convincing thing is revenue growth. But you'd need something like 18 months of steep revenue growth before a good investor would start to care as much about that graph as about how your mind works.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":20,"likes_count":210,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1130111383356542977","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":1130111243598159900,"conversation_id":"1130111139621343237","created_at":1558274491000,"date":"2019-05-19","time":"14:01:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"There's also a more subtle reason not to hide your problems from investors. You'll have much more interesting conversations if you're open about them. Nothing is more convincing to a good investor than seeing a good founder's mind at work.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":28,"likes_count":341,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1130111243598159872","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":1130111139621343200,"conversation_id":"1130111139621343237","created_at":1558274466000,"date":"2019-05-19","time":"14:01:06","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When talking to investors, don't try to hide your problems. Investors know every startup is a series of disasters. If you pretend nothing's wrong, they'll assume you're lying. Confident founders are candid.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":26,"retweets_count":605,"likes_count":2671,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1130111139621343237","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":1129923291483975700,"conversation_id":"1129923291483975680","created_at":1558229680000,"date":"2019-05-19","time":"01:34:40","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time —none, zero.\"\n\n– Charlie Munger (whose whole life = 92 years when he said it)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":50,"retweets_count":794,"likes_count":3257,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1129923291483975680","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":1129897694984646700,"conversation_id":"1129897694984646657","created_at":1558223577000,"date":"2019-05-18","time":"23:52:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The next time someone claims that starting startups is for rich kids, remind them that Airbnb happened because its founders literally could not pay their rent.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":301,"retweets_count":1330,"likes_count":5493,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1129897694984646657","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":1129892338120187900,"conversation_id":"1129890443372748800","created_at":1558222300000,"date":"2019-05-18","time":"23:31:40","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Disclosure: This tweet is one of a series from a secret cabal of people in Silicon Valley and rural England to boost Tesla's stock price.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":35,"retweets_count":15,"likes_count":580,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1129892338120187905","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":1129535845537599500,"conversation_id":"1129535448269893634","created_at":1558137305000,"date":"2019-05-17","time":"23:55:05","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"But clients don't usually need as much handholding as they think. (That's one reason it's so frustrating.) Which means startups can enter previously handholding-dominated industries with handholdingless options.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":14,"likes_count":304,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1129535845537599488","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":1129535448269893600,"conversation_id":"1129535448269893634","created_at":1558137211000,"date":"2019-05-17","time":"23:53:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Many businesses consist in practice mostly of client handholding, but practically no startups do. Startups scale, and handholding doesn't.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":18,"retweets_count":53,"likes_count":469,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1129535448269893634","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":1129501908572528600,"conversation_id":"1129372895577280513","created_at":1558129214000,"date":"2019-05-17","time":"21:40:14","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"7's not so much of a problem now and I'd change the order of cities in 2, but otherwise they all hold.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":1,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1129501908572528640","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":1129500412812374000,"conversation_id":"1129500412812374016","created_at":1558128858000,"date":"2019-05-17","time":"21:34:18","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Bad hires compound.\n\n(So do good hires of course, just with the opposite sign.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":137,"likes_count":986,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1129500412812374016","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":1128725276739788800,"conversation_id":"1128725276739788800","created_at":1557944051000,"date":"2019-05-15","time":"18:14:11","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Nowadays it's common for cynical journalists to ridicule startups that say they want to change the world. But many genuinely do, and those companies tend to do better than the ones motivated just by money.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":57,"retweets_count":181,"likes_count":1283,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1128725276739788800","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":1128660417436213200,"conversation_id":"1128660242089164800","created_at":1557928587000,"date":"2019-05-15","time":"13:56:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"What if you just asked what is the what-if-you-just every time?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":27,"likes_count":390,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1128660417436213249","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":""}
