{"id":1128660242089164800,"conversation_id":"1128660242089164800","created_at":1557928545000,"date":"2019-05-15","time":"13:55:45","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"A surprisingly large proportion of the best ideas seem to result from a thought of the form \"What if you just...?\" \n\nWhen you face a complicated problem, it might be worth explicitly asking \"What is the what-if-you-just of this problem?\" in case there is one.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":36,"retweets_count":218,"likes_count":1286,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1128660242089164800","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":1128524885440061400,"conversation_id":"1128524356819324928","created_at":1557896274000,"date":"2019-05-15","time":"04:57:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Though apparently Tara Ploughman found a way...","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":30,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1128524885440061440","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":1128524356819324900,"conversation_id":"1128524356819324928","created_at":1557896148000,"date":"2019-05-15","time":"04:55:48","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's interesting to see so many people trying their hand at aphorisms on Twitter, and turning out to be decent at it. Before Twitter there was no socially acceptable way to publish something so short.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":29,"retweets_count":19,"likes_count":348,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1128524356819324928","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":1128518539868905500,"conversation_id":"1128518539868905473","created_at":1557894761000,"date":"2019-05-15","time":"04:32:41","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When I teach my kids about discoveries, I focus on trying to recreate what people thought before the discovery – in particular, how obvious the earlier, mistaken model of the world seemed. How obvious it seemed that the sun orbited the earth, or that a creator made the species.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":43,"retweets_count":169,"likes_count":1253,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1128518539868905473","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":1127562615910293500,"conversation_id":"1127562615910293507","created_at":1557666851000,"date":"2019-05-12","time":"13:14:11","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Both.\"\n\n– Jessica when I asked if we should celebrate American Mother's Day or British Mother's Day.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":207,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127562615910293507","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":1127560339413971000,"conversation_id":"1127560339413970944","created_at":1557666308000,"date":"2019-05-12","time":"13:05:08","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Founders I've met from Nigeria, especially, suggest that those who think Africa is going to remain poor instead of following Asia are being too pessimistic. I realize this is only anecdotal evidence, but I have quite a lot of it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":91,"retweets_count":244,"likes_count":1031,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127560339413970944","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":1127536441276469200,"conversation_id":"1127535987876253696","created_at":1557660610000,"date":"2019-05-12","time":"11:30:10","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I wonder if this also implies you can trust powerful people with mediocre memories. If they don't have great memories, they can't have got where they did by lying.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":26,"retweets_count":22,"likes_count":367,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127536441276469248","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":1127535987876253700,"conversation_id":"1127535987876253696","created_at":1557660502000,"date":"2019-05-12","time":"11:28:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Was just thinking how one problem with telling lies is that you have to remember them all. Then I remembered that quite a lot of famous politicians have been known for their extraordinary memories. I'd always wondered about that. Now I may have a theory to explain it...","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":19,"retweets_count":52,"likes_count":450,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127535987876253696","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":1127532693539962900,"conversation_id":"1127528022549176326","created_at":1557659717000,"date":"2019-05-12","time":"11:15:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"There are two bad things about this, besides the injustice done to the victims.\n\n1. It encourages more mobs in the future.\n\n2. It teaches by example the lesson that convenience is more important than principle.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":17,"retweets_count":24,"likes_count":277,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127532693539962882","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":1127529720176959500,"conversation_id":"1127529720176959488","created_at":1557659008000,"date":"2019-05-12","time":"11:03:28","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's very dangerous to find yourself standing between a mother moose and her child, but perhaps even more dangerous to find yourself standing between a university administrator and peace and quiet.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":10,"likes_count":155,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127529720176959488","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":1127335187485012000,"conversation_id":"1127335187485011968","created_at":1557612628000,"date":"2019-05-11","time":"22:10:28","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's hard to beat someone at something if they enjoy it and you don't. This is true for good things like writing and dancing and also for bad things like meanness and office politics.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":48,"retweets_count":1687,"likes_count":6349,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127335187485011968","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":1127287035276951600,"conversation_id":"1127287035276951554","created_at":1557601147000,"date":"2019-05-11","time":"18:59:07","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"7 yo was surprised to learn that the 5 second rule has no basis in biology. But when I imitated a bunch of germs seeing food fall and counting to 5 before jumping on it, he had to admit it was pretty implausible.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":20,"retweets_count":20,"likes_count":443,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127287035276951554","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":1127235904236609500,"conversation_id":"1127235904236609536","created_at":1557588957000,"date":"2019-05-11","time":"15:35:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"In the football match I played in yesterday, the goalkeeper said \"thank you\" every time one of us blocked a shot or stole the ball close to the goal. Every goalkeeper should do that! Your players will love you.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":10,"likes_count":243,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127235904236609536","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":1127201720055017500,"conversation_id":"1127166746371207169","created_at":1557580807000,"date":"2019-05-11","time":"13:20:07","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"...and then afterward, when you're older and more powerful, try to change the system.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":45,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127201720055017472","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":1127201571878703100,"conversation_id":"1127166746371207169","created_at":1557580771000,"date":"2019-05-11","time":"13:19:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Find friends who are also interested in programming and work on side projects together. Unless you're in one of those countries where cramming for entrance exams takes all your time. In that case my advice might be to muscle through it, if the cramming period is short.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":34,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127201571878703104","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":1127166746371207200,"conversation_id":"1127166746371207169","created_at":1557572468000,"date":"2019-05-11","time":"11:01:08","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"My kids are always coming up with startup ideas. I decided the 10 yo is now old enough to hear the truth: if you want to start a startup, the thing to be doing at 10 is learning the things that will enable you to have good startup ideas at 20. How to program especially.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":85,"retweets_count":338,"likes_count":2368,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127166746371207169","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":1127165210702286800,"conversation_id":"1127165210702286848","created_at":1557572102000,"date":"2019-05-11","time":"10:55:02","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I was explaining to some college students why the Collisons are such effective founders, and I put it about as concisely as possible:\n\nThey're theoretical physics smart, Napoleon ambitious, and brother tight.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":17,"retweets_count":184,"likes_count":1632,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1127165210702286848","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":1126425336290398200,"conversation_id":"1126425336290398208","created_at":1557395702000,"date":"2019-05-09","time":"09:55:02","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"British newspapers are read from the opposite side to American ones. On the back they have a special section with news about Brexit.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":5,"likes_count":40,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1126425336290398208","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":1126162176216129500,"conversation_id":"1126161251309170688","created_at":1557332960000,"date":"2019-05-08","time":"16:29:20","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(He didn't make this one up of course. That's what he means when he says it's a modern classic.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":39,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1126162176216129536","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":1126161251309170700,"conversation_id":"1126161251309170688","created_at":1557332740000,"date":"2019-05-08","time":"16:25:40","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"7 yo: Why don't seagulls fly over the bay?\n\nMe: Why?\n\n7 yo: Because then they'd be bagels.  That's a modern classic joke.\n\nMe: What does \"classic\" mean?\n\n7 yo: Doesn't get old.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":9,"retweets_count":15,"likes_count":310,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1126161251309170688","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":1126142088976969700,"conversation_id":"1126142088976969732","created_at":1557328171000,"date":"2019-05-08","time":"15:09:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Making code shorter often also makes it more correct. Part of what you're doing when you boil code down is eliminating conflicting assumptions. I've seen this happen often enough that I'm now suspicious of the correctness of any code that seems unnecessarily long.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":76,"retweets_count":392,"likes_count":2033,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1126142088976969732","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":1126131027322318800,"conversation_id":"1126129642027536385","created_at":1557325534000,"date":"2019-05-08","time":"14:25:34","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The news media then focuses on the spoilt ones, because they generate ready-made clickbait stories. And meanwhile there's another, much more encouraging story happening quietly in parallel.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":10,"likes_count":317,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1126131027322318848","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":1126130251573137400,"conversation_id":"1126129642027536385","created_at":1557325349000,"date":"2019-05-08","time":"14:22:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Perhaps what's happening is that college students, like so many other parts of society are becoming more polarized: that the spoilt ones are more spoilt than in the past, but the effective ones are also more effective than in the past.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":20,"likes_count":377,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1126130251573137408","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":1126129642027536400,"conversation_id":"1126129642027536385","created_at":1557325203000,"date":"2019-05-08","time":"14:20:03","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Have met several times with undergrads over the past year and every time have come away impressed by how effective and ambitious they seemed. I suspect the popular narrative about college students being spoilt snowflakes is wrong. That kind of popular narrative often is.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":26,"retweets_count":52,"likes_count":694,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1126129642027536385","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":1125361754060599300,"conversation_id":"1125359576038158341","created_at":1557142125000,"date":"2019-05-06","time":"11:28:45","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Two possible solutions for people who have to decide which projects to back:\n\n1. Admit you're deciding based on hunches, and just try to be really good at that.\n\n2. Make the cost of failure low. E.g. back a lot of small projects instead of one big one.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":19,"retweets_count":70,"likes_count":480,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1125361754060599297","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":1125360756491542500,"conversation_id":"1125359576038158341","created_at":1557141887000,"date":"2019-05-06","time":"11:24:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's very dangerous for those in authority to require proof of the potential of an idea before allowing it to happen. The best ideas always embody this sort of self-growing cycle, but it tends to be impossible to predict, even by the people who have the idea.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":75,"likes_count":432,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1125360756491542528","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":1124735266068095000,"conversation_id":"1124735266068094982","created_at":1556992758000,"date":"2019-05-04","time":"17:59:18","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you have to choose between someone who's a jerk in personal matters but perfectly correct in his opinions, and someone who's upstanding in personal matters but heretical in his opinions, choose the latter.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":74,"retweets_count":262,"likes_count":1456,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124735266068094982","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":1124655707796725800,"conversation_id":"1124654718851211264","created_at":1556973790000,"date":"2019-05-04","time":"12:43:10","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Refinement: When one kid earns the royal treatment, he gets the right to confer it on his brother too, which he always does. This makes the brother grateful, which further adds to the festive atmosphere, whereas if only one kid got it, well you know kids...","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":17,"retweets_count":13,"likes_count":426,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124655707796725760","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":1124654990063296500,"conversation_id":"1124654718851211264","created_at":1556973619000,"date":"2019-05-04","time":"12:40:19","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Kids' lives are full of rules, so it's very exciting to them when they're bent. But only, of course, if this is rare.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":6,"likes_count":196,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124654990063296512","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":1124654718851211300,"conversation_id":"1124654718851211264","created_at":1556973554000,"date":"2019-05-04","time":"12:39:14","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Parenting trick: When one of our kids does something really good (usually but not always at school) we give them the \"royal treatment.\" For the next couple days, all the rules are slightly bent. Stay up late? Candy with breakfast? Ok, since they're getting the royal treatment.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":22,"likes_count":444,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124654718851211264","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":1124393273114681300,"conversation_id":"1124393273114681354","created_at":1556911221000,"date":"2019-05-03","time":"19:20:21","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"7 yo: Is funding gambling?\n\nMe: What do you mean?\n\n7 yo: If you fund someone and their company fails, you don't get any money. Isn't that gambling?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":137,"retweets_count":294,"likes_count":2888,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124393273114681354","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":1124324790985273300,"conversation_id":"1124324395483164673","created_at":1556894893000,"date":"2019-05-03","time":"14:48:13","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Yes.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":2,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124324790985273344","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":1124260270975660000,"conversation_id":"1124254508232663040","created_at":1556879511000,"date":"2019-05-03","time":"10:31:51","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I'm not saying, obviously, that most nonprofits are run by sociopaths. A disproportionate number of the best people I know run nonprofits. So don't let this phenomenon discourage you from working for or donating to nonprofits. But be aware of it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":25,"retweets_count":63,"likes_count":644,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124260270975660032","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":1124255733699293200,"conversation_id":"1124254508232663040","created_at":1556878429000,"date":"2019-05-03","time":"10:13:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Having to make a profit is pretty constraining. You have to satisfy customers or you go out of business. With a nonprofit, there's no intrinsic accountability. If you're a good scammer, the scam need never end. And seeming virtuous is easy when donors already want to believe it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":50,"retweets_count":187,"likes_count":1205,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124255733699293190","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":1124254508232663000,"conversation_id":"1124254508232663040","created_at":1556878137000,"date":"2019-05-03","time":"10:08:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The most surprising thing I've learned from being involved with nonprofits is that they are a magnet for sociopaths. One's naive reaction is \"Why would nonprofits attract them? Nonprofits do good!\" But the defining quality of nonprofits is to make no profit, not to do good.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":173,"retweets_count":665,"likes_count":2811,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124254508232663040","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":1124243731866107900,"conversation_id":"1124242355526295553","created_at":1556875567000,"date":"2019-05-03","time":"09:26:07","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I know very few people who are as good at anything as Jessica is at judging character. It is amazing to watch her at work. Only a handful of people have ever seen it though.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":21,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":157,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124243731866107904","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":1124242355526295600,"conversation_id":"1124242355526295553","created_at":1556875239000,"date":"2019-05-03","time":"09:20:39","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Was talking to Jessica about her judgments of people, and we were astonished to find she'd never had a false positive, in 14 years in the startup world. Everyone she thought was a bad egg turned out to be one.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":38,"retweets_count":20,"likes_count":438,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124242355526295553","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":1123951152863817700,"conversation_id":"1123948391896104961","created_at":1556805811000,"date":"2019-05-02","time":"14:03:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(The absence of such notices doesn't mean a design is good, though. If autocomplete shows lots of people have to search to figure out how to use something, that counts as a notice.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":6,"likes_count":129,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1123951152863817730","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":1123948391896105000,"conversation_id":"1123948391896104961","created_at":1556805153000,"date":"2019-05-02","time":"13:52:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One way to tell when a design has failed is when you have to add notices telling people how to use it. Push the start button to start. Click here to adjust whatever.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":56,"retweets_count":235,"likes_count":1092,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1123948391896104961","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":1123888276224581600,"conversation_id":"1123888276224581632","created_at":1556790820000,"date":"2019-05-02","time":"09:53:40","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Imagine an uptalking airline pilot. Wouldn't you be a little scared?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":9,"retweets_count":9,"likes_count":102,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1123888276224581632","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":1123884050421252100,"conversation_id":"1123884050421252097","created_at":1556789813000,"date":"2019-05-02","time":"09:36:53","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Twitter is a crowdsourced Milgram experiment.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":11,"retweets_count":19,"likes_count":168,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1123884050421252097","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":1123666176641466400,"conversation_id":"1123665034817757184","created_at":1556737867000,"date":"2019-05-01","time":"19:11:07","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(This is a strange tweet in the sense that it's aimed at maybe 10 people who have an idea almost formed in their heads. Those few it may tip into epiphany. To everyone else it will seem at best plausible but vague.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":23,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":234,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1123666176641466368","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":1123665034817757200,"conversation_id":"1123665034817757184","created_at":1556737595000,"date":"2019-05-01","time":"19:06:35","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"People are bad at judging things individually but good at comparing two things side by side. So much so that if you put two things side by side it's hard not to compare them. It seems likely there are yet to be founded startups driven by this.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":93,"retweets_count":112,"likes_count":1134,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1123665034817757184","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":1123647363954958300,"conversation_id":"1123647363954958336","created_at":1556733382000,"date":"2019-05-01","time":"17:56:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Most people overestimate the importance of f(x) relative to f'(x). \n\nWhere you're going matters more than where you are.\n\nThis is not just a feel-good hippy aphorism. Getting this is why traders and startup founders split the top spots in the Forbes 400.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":49,"retweets_count":528,"likes_count":2420,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1123647363954958336","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":1123544714622447600,"conversation_id":"1123541987330863104","created_at":1556708909000,"date":"2019-05-01","time":"11:08:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"This quote is all the more remarkable considering who said it and when. Even now, being boastful is a huge social error among educated English people, and it would have been even more so in 1940 when Hardy was writing. So clearly this was something he thought very important.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":167,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1123544714622447616","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":1123541987330863100,"conversation_id":"1123541987330863104","created_at":1556708258000,"date":"2019-05-01","time":"10:57:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Good work is not done by 'humble' men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his importance in it.\" \n\n– G. H. Hardy","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":120,"likes_count":734,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1123541987330863104","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":1123158475217997800,"conversation_id":"1123129914318884865","created_at":1556616822000,"date":"2019-04-30","time":"09:33:42","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":10,"likes_count":42,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1123158475217997825","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":1122987659079618600,"conversation_id":"1122987659079618563","created_at":1556576096000,"date":"2019-04-29","time":"22:14:56","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Bizarre discovery: Tesla has a fleet of haters who must search for tweets mentioning the company in order to reply to them. I've seen plenty of haters before, but never such proactive ones. Who are they? Car dealers? People who shorted the stock? Bots?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":731,"retweets_count":672,"likes_count":14018,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122987659079618563","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":1122922415993106400,"conversation_id":"1122922415993106433","created_at":1556560541000,"date":"2019-04-29","time":"17:55:41","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The old car companies think what separates them from Tesla is that Teslas are electric. But they're also separated by the fact that Teslas are software, and that, they will discover, is an unbridgeable gulf.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":287,"retweets_count":1403,"likes_count":8823,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122922415993106433","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":1122918030902689800,"conversation_id":"1122918030902689794","created_at":1556559496000,"date":"2019-04-29","time":"17:38:16","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness, and an impatience with sloppy thinking came naturally to both of us.\"\n\n– Crick on Crick and Watson","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":18,"likes_count":234,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122918030902689794","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":1122804094513578000,"conversation_id":"1122803944206544897","created_at":1556532331000,"date":"2019-04-29","time":"10:05:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Arguably the reason Tesla is an exception is that it is actually a software company.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":55,"retweets_count":27,"likes_count":425,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122804094513577990","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":1122803944206544900,"conversation_id":"1122803944206544897","created_at":1556532295000,"date":"2019-04-29","time":"10:04:55","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The two axioms that explain your experience with devices that contain software (except Teslas):\n\nI. It takes extraordinary effort to make software that's not horribly difficult to use.\n\nII. Companies whose main focus isn't software don't expend extraordinary effort on it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":29,"retweets_count":183,"likes_count":966,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122803944206544897","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":1122776206229815300,"conversation_id":"1122776206229815297","created_at":1556525682000,"date":"2019-04-29","time":"08:14:42","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Explained liberal and conservative to my 10 yo and 7 yo on the way to school. I ended up describing them as forms of bias that each produced distinctive patterns of error when they hit the truth.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":46,"likes_count":460,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122776206229815297","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":1122609394028621800,"conversation_id":"1122609394028621826","created_at":1556485911000,"date":"2019-04-28","time":"21:11:51","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you want something to be remembered forever, you don't have to write it to the blockchain. Just compile it into a promise to a small child.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":32,"retweets_count":292,"likes_count":2345,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122609394028621826","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":1122441256100143100,"conversation_id":"1122438586048090115","created_at":1556445824000,"date":"2019-04-28","time":"10:03:44","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The viral version would be \"Why DHH is wrong about selling your company.\" But ugh.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":20,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":178,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122441256100143106","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":1122432712915267600,"conversation_id":"1122432712915267584","created_at":1556443787000,"date":"2019-04-28","time":"09:29:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Old family\" = impressive person followed by sufficient generations for reversion to the mean.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":202,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122432712915267584","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":1122152788300111900,"conversation_id":"1122152788300111872","created_at":1556377047000,"date":"2019-04-27","time":"14:57:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I just realized something about Edward Tufte. He's an existence proof that criticism, as a calling, is not inherently a waste of time. Imagine if someone did literary or art criticism the way Tufte does data visualization criticism.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":42,"likes_count":366,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122152788300111872","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":1122129570533081100,"conversation_id":"1122074507739582464","created_at":1556371512000,"date":"2019-04-27","time":"13:25:12","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"And not that lagging.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":11,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122129570533081089","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":1122074507739582500,"conversation_id":"1122074507739582464","created_at":1556358384000,"date":"2019-04-27","time":"09:46:24","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One way to tell what your kids have an aptitude for is what kinds of advice they listen to eagerly. This probably works for adults too, but not as well, because adults have learned to be diligent about things that bore them.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":34,"likes_count":312,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122074507739582464","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":1122067402546659300,"conversation_id":"1122067402546659328","created_at":1556356690000,"date":"2019-04-27","time":"09:18:10","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"7 yo's latest idea for a TV series: A man puts on VR goggles and doesn't take them off, thinks he is a superhero and his cat, Fluffy, is his arch nemesis. In the last episode he takes off the goggles and discovers his sidekick is a bush.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":26,"retweets_count":26,"likes_count":534,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122067402546659328","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":1122064037875978200,"conversation_id":"1122064037875978240","created_at":1556355888000,"date":"2019-04-27","time":"09:04:48","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Last night I tricked my 10 yo into letting me read him P. G. Wodehouse as a bedtime story, since he had a cricket match the next day and needed a story about cricket to inspire him.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":160,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122064037875978240","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":1121805515984601100,"conversation_id":"1121796184111063041","created_at":1556294251000,"date":"2019-04-26","time":"15:57:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I they're interested in some other topic, why shouldn't they study it? Especially early on, it's good to learn about lots of different things.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":2,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121805515984601088","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":1121803837499674600,"conversation_id":"1121796184111063041","created_at":1556293851000,"date":"2019-04-26","time":"15:50:51","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"How do you mean technical student with a non-technical major?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":1,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121803837499674626","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":1121384260332658700,"conversation_id":"1121382480303407106","created_at":1556193816000,"date":"2019-04-25","time":"12:03:36","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When YC tells founders that the only things they should do during YC are build things and talk to users (and live healthily and spend time with family), they're not saying something about YC. They're saying something about startups.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":11,"retweets_count":46,"likes_count":468,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121384260332658689","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":1121383827555999700,"conversation_id":"1121382480303407106","created_at":1556193713000,"date":"2019-04-25","time":"12:01:53","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"This is an instance of the more general rule that when startups think anything other than building great things and engaging with users will make them grow, they're usually mistaken.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":51,"likes_count":428,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121383827555999744","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":1121382480303407100,"conversation_id":"1121382480303407106","created_at":1556193392000,"date":"2019-04-25","time":"11:56:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When startups think a partnership with some big company will be the silver bullet that makes them grow, they're usually mistaken. What makes you grow is building amazing things and making customers love you.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":64,"retweets_count":695,"likes_count":2920,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121382480303407106","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":1121331962722050000,"conversation_id":"1121255427180777472","created_at":1556181347000,"date":"2019-04-25","time":"08:35:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Your best bet is to cultivate a network of friends who work at startups, and then ask them which are admirable in the kind of work you want to learn.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":5,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121331962722050049","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":1120695393342378000,"conversation_id":"1120694077299855361","created_at":1556029577000,"date":"2019-04-23","time":"14:26:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I'm not saying you should never hire anyone established. You'll probably have to eventually. But your need for them is not as urgent as you fear, or your VCs claim. And established people are really good at seeming better than they are.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":34,"retweets_count":118,"likes_count":1132,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1120695393342377985","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":1120694077299855400,"conversation_id":"1120694077299855361","created_at":1556029264000,"date":"2019-04-23","time":"14:21:04","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you're the CEO of a fast-growing startup, the mistake you'll make in the next year that you'll regret most will probably be a hiring mistake. Possibly hiring someone established, which you'll feel you should do now you're getting big, and which VCs will strongly encourage.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":76,"retweets_count":462,"likes_count":2323,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1120694077299855361","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":1120652451101777900,"conversation_id":"1120624679239258119","created_at":1556019339000,"date":"2019-04-23","time":"11:35:39","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I often hear from people that my essays helped them, but beyond that you never know. That's the weird thing about writing: it can have great effects (is mightier than the sword, etc), but it's not \"haptic\" to the degree most other kinds of work are.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":16,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1120652451101777923","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":1120648815378407400,"conversation_id":"1120648815378407424","created_at":1556018472000,"date":"2019-04-23","time":"11:21:12","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One strange consequence of looking far into startups' futures is that I sometimes realize two YC startups currently doing completely different things will, if they do them well enough, end up competing.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":33,"retweets_count":20,"likes_count":506,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1120648815378407424","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":1120625557467693000,"conversation_id":"1120624679239258119","created_at":1556012927000,"date":"2019-04-23","time":"09:48:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Now I get told it on Twitter and in the press instead of in the principal's office. But anyone who thinks a Twitter mob is intimidating never met Mr. Guella.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":189,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1120625557467693056","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":1120624679239258100,"conversation_id":"1120624679239258119","created_at":1556012718000,"date":"2019-04-23","time":"09:45:18","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Looking at my 7 yo, I asked myself if there was anything that had been consistent about my life from when I was 7 til now.\n\nInstantly the answer popped into my head: being told \"How dare you say that!\" by the prim and conventional-minded.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":23,"likes_count":296,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1120624679239258119","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":1119917169716777000,"conversation_id":"1119917169716776960","created_at":1555844034000,"date":"2019-04-21","time":"10:53:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"10 yo just watched Psycho, and 7 yo is enjoying the rare feeling of having the upper hand every time 10 yo takes a shower.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":153,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1119917169716776960","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":1119912012983803900,"conversation_id":"1119912012983803905","created_at":1555842805000,"date":"2019-04-21","time":"10:33:25","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Solving problems exposes new problems. This is exciting to scientists, but depressing in practical matters.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":49,"retweets_count":354,"likes_count":1794,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1119912012983803905","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":1119204517839626200,"conversation_id":"1119204517839626242","created_at":1555674125000,"date":"2019-04-19","time":"11:42:05","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"In common usage, especially on the far left, \"problematic\" is usually just a pretentious synonym for \"bad.\"\n\nIf you replace the former with the latter, you see what's actually being said.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":27,"retweets_count":27,"likes_count":297,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1119204517839626242","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":1118891042965684200,"conversation_id":"1118887980679270402","created_at":1555599387000,"date":"2019-04-18","time":"14:56:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Figuring out which company is the next Google is a hard problem. There's a whole class of people, known as investors, whose full time job it is. But it's not an insoluble problem. And if you're young and good at programming, you have insights no investors have.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":39,"retweets_count":57,"likes_count":568,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1118891042965684225","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":1118890176770711600,"conversation_id":"1118887980679270402","created_at":1555599180000,"date":"2019-04-18","time":"14:53:00","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The laziness of new grads is hugely to the advantage of companies like Google, which appears to be the MIT of employers. But there's no such thing. What you want to find is the company that is now what Google was in 1999.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":33,"retweets_count":134,"likes_count":722,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1118890176770711553","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":1118889120317751300,"conversation_id":"1118887980679270402","created_at":1555598928000,"date":"2019-04-18","time":"14:48:48","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"New grads would like to believe that picking an employer is like picking a college, where all the schools at a given level of \"elite\" are roughly interchangeable. But employers vary a lot more than colleges. Choosing an employer is a much harder problem.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":33,"likes_count":311,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1118889120317751297","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":1118887980679270400,"conversation_id":"1118887980679270402","created_at":1555598657000,"date":"2019-04-18","time":"14:44:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Programmers getting their first jobs after school don't do nearly enough research about where would be best to work. Largely, I think, because they're in denial about the inconvenient truth that research is necessary.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":44,"retweets_count":165,"likes_count":1052,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1118887980679270402","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":1118839475331838000,"conversation_id":"1118839475331837957","created_at":1555587092000,"date":"2019-04-18","time":"11:31:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"A counterargument against \"Google is evil.\" I know lots of people who (a) work at Google, (b) don't need to, (c) have high moral standards, and (d) know better than politicians or reporters what Google actually does.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":66,"retweets_count":63,"likes_count":570,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1118839475331837957","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":1118820432189231100,"conversation_id":"1118820432189231104","created_at":1555582552000,"date":"2019-04-18","time":"10:15:52","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When you get sick in a strange place, it takes longer to tell you're sick, because it's harder to compare how you feel with how you usually feel.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":11,"retweets_count":14,"likes_count":208,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1118820432189231104","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":1118808090466574300,"conversation_id":"1118267596825083905","created_at":1555579609000,"date":"2019-04-18","time":"09:26:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Yes. Try Clojure.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":89,"likes_count":196,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1118808090466574336","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":1118544095088193500,"conversation_id":"1118544095088193537","created_at":1555516668000,"date":"2019-04-17","time":"15:57:48","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"To my surprise, having been attacked by so many Twitter mobs turns out to have an upside: I've been able to help several other people when it happened to them for the first time.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":23,"retweets_count":17,"likes_count":411,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1118544095088193537","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":1118273174247026700,"conversation_id":"1118267596825083905","created_at":1555452075000,"date":"2019-04-16","time":"22:01:15","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Incidentally, I wrote On Lisp on legal pads mostly. I didn't have my own computer then. Computers were in offices and labs, and I couldn't write there. So I'd write a few pages at a time and then type it in next time I was at a computer.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":9,"likes_count":184,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1118273174247026689","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":1118270437438439400,"conversation_id":"1118267596825083905","created_at":1555451423000,"date":"2019-04-16","time":"21:50:23","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's been so long since I wrote it that I can almost read it the way someone else would. And basically it's in the category of books where the author seems to know what he's talking about, but cares more about more boring details than I ever will. Which is really weird.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":9,"retweets_count":15,"likes_count":231,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1118270437438439424","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":1118267596825083900,"conversation_id":"1118267596825083905","created_at":1555450746000,"date":"2019-04-16","time":"21:39:06","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Needed some code from On Lisp yesterday and happened to read a chunk of it. If you've ever wondered whether, after someone writes a book, the stuff in the book is in their head ever after, the answer is definitely no.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":42,"likes_count":476,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1118267596825083905","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":""}
