{"id":1117512986820862000,"conversation_id":"1117512986820861953","created_at":1555270833000,"date":"2019-04-14","time":"19:40:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Can you tell a story about a kid revolution?\"\n\n– tonight's bedtime story request","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":66,"retweets_count":17,"likes_count":421,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1117512986820861953","retweet":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":1117063944592609300,"conversation_id":"1117063944592609280","created_at":1555163773000,"date":"2019-04-13","time":"13:56:13","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Experts share something in common with conspiracy theorists: they see patterns where other people just see random data. The difference, of course, is that experts are correct. But I bet part of the attraction of conspiracy theories is that they make you feel like an expert.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":163,"retweets_count":489,"likes_count":3125,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1117063944592609280","retweet":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":1116367864477491200,"conversation_id":"1116365584420220928","created_at":1554997814000,"date":"2019-04-11","time":"15:50:14","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Investors who talked to me on Demo Day used to be surprised that I had such a detailed understanding of what all the companies were doing. But it wasn't surprising when you consider I'd basically written a short essay about each one.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":16,"likes_count":434,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1116367864477491205","retweet":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":1115591345572159500,"conversation_id":"1115591345572159490","created_at":1554812678000,"date":"2019-04-09","time":"12:24:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Jim was a little more brash, stating that no *good* model ever accounted for *all* the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.\"\n\n– Francis Crick on the way the exact sciences are actually pursued","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":15,"likes_count":128,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1115591345572159490","retweet":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":1115330064202252300,"conversation_id":"1115330064202252294","created_at":1554750383000,"date":"2019-04-08","time":"19:06:23","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I asked myself who I'd want as world dictator if there had to be one, and my first choice was Peter Norvig. I don't think he'd want the job, but I don't think you'd want anyone who would.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":34,"retweets_count":16,"likes_count":343,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1115330064202252294","retweet":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":1115325316296314900,"conversation_id":"1115325316296314882","created_at":1554749251000,"date":"2019-04-08","time":"18:47:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's hard for people to understand something they want to hate.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":74,"retweets_count":934,"likes_count":3289,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1115325316296314882","retweet":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":1115231214024187900,"conversation_id":"1115229645362946048","created_at":1554726816000,"date":"2019-04-08","time":"12:33:36","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you have a choice between starting a startup whose customers are big companies and one whose aren't, then all other things being equal, choose the latter.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":9,"retweets_count":31,"likes_count":232,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1115231214024187907","retweet":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":1115229645362946000,"conversation_id":"1115229645362946048","created_at":1554726442000,"date":"2019-04-08","time":"12:27:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Enterprise startups sometimes go on to succeed after a recap. Consumer startups rarely if ever do. The reason is that enterprise startups can have a genuinely good idea and still be killed by the slowness of the sales and development processes.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":17,"retweets_count":86,"likes_count":471,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1115229645362946048","retweet":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":1115197782091083800,"conversation_id":"1115197782091083782","created_at":1554718845000,"date":"2019-04-08","time":"10:20:45","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hypothesis: the thing the Trump administration will be remembered for, in popular culture, is separating young children from their parents.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":47,"retweets_count":18,"likes_count":232,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1115197782091083782","retweet":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":1115022394924703700,"conversation_id":"1115005532178460674","created_at":1554677029000,"date":"2019-04-07","time":"22:43:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's not common in the startup world for a new idea to grow fast among early adopters. Founders wish.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":23,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1115022394924703744","retweet":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":1115016840772767700,"conversation_id":"1115005532178460674","created_at":1554675705000,"date":"2019-04-07","time":"22:21:45","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I realize \"know-it-alls\" is a goofily retro term, but it's apt here, because you'd need to be God to dismiss startup ideas confidently. It's not because I'm extra polite that you don't hear me doing it. It's because I have enough experience to know how dangerous it is.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":17,"retweets_count":48,"likes_count":421,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1115016840772767744","retweet":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":1115014162357342200,"conversation_id":"1115005532178460674","created_at":1554675066000,"date":"2019-04-07","time":"22:11:06","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Perhaps the reason is that these ideas seem to the know-it-alls not merely unpromising but also presumptuous, and since risk is proportionate to reward, a presumptuous idea that actually works is likely to pay off big.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":35,"likes_count":307,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1115014162357342209","retweet":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":1115007253600448500,"conversation_id":"1115005532178460674","created_at":1554673419000,"date":"2019-04-07","time":"21:43:39","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Microcomputers, the web, cryptocurrency.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":13,"likes_count":191,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1115007253600448512","retweet":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":1115005532178460700,"conversation_id":"1115005532178460674","created_at":1554673009000,"date":"2019-04-07","time":"21:36:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's not uncommon in the startup world for a new idea to be dismissed by know-it-alls simultaneously with growing rapidly among early adopters. I'm not sure why, but these ideas seem to do even better than the ones that aren't dismissed by know-it-alls.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":98,"retweets_count":387,"likes_count":1898,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1115005532178460674","retweet":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":1114523115386806300,"conversation_id":"1114520822322954240","created_at":1554557992000,"date":"2019-04-06","time":"13:39:52","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"There's a variant of Cunningham's Law for startups: the fastest way to learn what people want is to give them what they don't want.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":17,"retweets_count":169,"likes_count":866,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1114523115386806273","retweet":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":1114521833817157600,"conversation_id":"1114520822322954240","created_at":1554557686000,"date":"2019-04-06","time":"13:34:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"E.g. Zuck once told me that they were surprised that early Facebook users kept changing their profile pics. That was how they realized users wanted to share images.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":100,"likes_count":654,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1114521833817157632","retweet":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":1114521264406839300,"conversation_id":"1114520822322954240","created_at":1554557550000,"date":"2019-04-06","time":"13:32:30","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's not a bad sign if there are lots of answers to these questions. It's a good sign. It means you're at least near some live demand, which is as much as you can hope for at first.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":13,"likes_count":185,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1114521264406839297","retweet":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":1114520822322954200,"conversation_id":"1114520822322954240","created_at":1554557445000,"date":"2019-04-06","time":"13:30:45","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One of the most useful questions you can ask in a startup is: How is what users want different than you expected? Are people using your product in unexpected ways? Are different people using it than you expected?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":25,"retweets_count":375,"likes_count":1952,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1114520822322954240","retweet":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":1114240036625625100,"conversation_id":"1114239524668944385","created_at":1554490500000,"date":"2019-04-05","time":"18:55:00","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(Incidentally, I have a strange idea of fun. IMO it doesn't get much better than White's _Medieval Technology and Social Change_.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":159,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1114240036625625088","retweet":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":1114239524668944400,"conversation_id":"1114239524668944385","created_at":1554490378000,"date":"2019-04-05","time":"18:52:58","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When I was 20 I tried to estimate the number of important books. There were more than one could read in a lifetime. So I decided I'd start with the fun ones.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":20,"retweets_count":34,"likes_count":442,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1114239524668944385","retweet":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":1114228117927813100,"conversation_id":"1114228117927813122","created_at":1554487659000,"date":"2019-04-05","time":"18:07:39","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When you visit a place with no light pollution, you realize why ancient scientists cared so much about astronomy.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":82,"retweets_count":839,"likes_count":5986,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1114228117927813122","retweet":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":1111948424851701800,"conversation_id":"1111948424851701760","created_at":1553944138000,"date":"2019-03-30","time":"11:08:58","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you're diligent about rewriting code so that it's always at what seems the limit of elegance, you sometimes see patterns in it that you can embody in new operators that push the limit outward. But unless you're near the limit you may never know those operators are possible.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":69,"likes_count":453,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1111948424851701760","retweet":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":1111687842969854000,"conversation_id":"1111687842969853952","created_at":1553882010000,"date":"2019-03-29","time":"17:53:30","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"TMI. Clamp down on nuclear plants. Result: global warming.\n\nInternet Bubble. Regulate public companies more strictly. Result: IPOs take longer, ordinary investors miss growth.\n\n9/11. Invade Afghanistan. Result: What always happens when you invade Afghanistan.\n\nA pattern of panic.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":27,"retweets_count":79,"likes_count":659,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1111687842969853952","retweet":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":1111617093122883600,"conversation_id":"1111604749684666370","created_at":1553865142000,"date":"2019-03-29","time":"13:12:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"To the extent this is what the news is becoming, it's something to avoid. When I was a kid, it was impressive to consume a lot of news. Someone who subscribed to 5 newspapers would brag about that. But it's not impressive to consume a lot of Fox News. It's not even neutral.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":25,"retweets_count":25,"likes_count":316,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1111617093122883585","retweet":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":1111612565321384000,"conversation_id":"1111604749684666370","created_at":1553864062000,"date":"2019-03-29","time":"12:54:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Further hypothesis: A publication or news show can't simultaneously induce anger on the right and the left. So the high-minded, politically neutral news outlet like e.g. the NYT or WaPo used to be, is a thing of the past. Now they have to pick sides. Certainly the NYT has.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":30,"retweets_count":26,"likes_count":292,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1111612565321383936","retweet":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":1111609248390225900,"conversation_id":"1111604749684666370","created_at":1553863272000,"date":"2019-03-29","time":"12:41:12","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hypothesis: Maybe news has become a business (like alcohol and virtual goods) where revenue is disproportionately driven by heavy consumers (aka \"whales\"), and they are driving this. Maybe 5% of the population is insatiably angry. Talk radio suggests this is plausible.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":28,"retweets_count":56,"likes_count":498,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1111609248390225920","retweet":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":1111604749684666400,"conversation_id":"1111604749684666370","created_at":1553862199000,"date":"2019-03-29","time":"12:23:19","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Who'd have thought that if people could choose their own news, they'd choose the stories that made them angry? We take it for granted now, but it really is surprising. Cynical editors used to think \"if it bleeds, it leads\" was as low as you could go. But people like anger more.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":101,"retweets_count":290,"likes_count":1434,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1111604749684666370","retweet":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":1111287497538056200,"conversation_id":"1111287497538056192","created_at":1553786560000,"date":"2019-03-28","time":"15:22:40","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Some people believe that if they can catch a leprechaun and make him implement their idea, they will become rich. (In California, leprechauns are also known as \"technical cofounders.\") #FolkloreThursday","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":89,"retweets_count":418,"likes_count":2492,"hashtags":["#folklorethursday"],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1111287497538056192","retweet":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":1111000846681153500,"conversation_id":"1111000846681153541","created_at":1553718217000,"date":"2019-03-27","time":"20:23:37","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Prediction: Article 13 will damage the EU more than it damages the internet. The EU believes it can push the future in the direction it wants. But the future has more mass than the EU. So what will happen instead is that the EU will push itself away from the future.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":135,"retweets_count":856,"likes_count":3130,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1111000846681153541","retweet":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":1110939267595931600,"conversation_id":"1110933465141268480","created_at":1553703536000,"date":"2019-03-27","time":"16:18:56","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I had a similar realization about Viaweb's growth graphs. Steep bits would be interspersed with flat bits. Why the flat bits? Eventually I realized I was looking at the sum of two functions: growth + random variation. Flat is the shape down is forced into when you're growing.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":10,"likes_count":176,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110939267595931648","retweet":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":1110934264898617300,"conversation_id":"1110933465141268480","created_at":1553702343000,"date":"2019-03-27","time":"15:59:03","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"After almost every essay I've written, people have said I've jumped the shark. Then after we started YC people would constantly say it about YC. The phenomenon puzzled me for years before I realized it was simply the form disagreeing was forced into when you were good.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":11,"retweets_count":12,"likes_count":229,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110934264898617348","retweet":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":1110933465141268500,"conversation_id":"1110933465141268480","created_at":1553702152000,"date":"2019-03-27","time":"15:55:52","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you're good at something, people will constantly say you've jumped the shark. If you do something they disagree with, but they know you were good in the past, then either (a) they're wrong or (b) you suddenly got bad. They can't choose (a) so they're forced to conclude (b).","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":55,"likes_count":452,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110933465141268480","retweet":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":1110930071118856200,"conversation_id":"1110930071118856192","created_at":1553701343000,"date":"2019-03-27","time":"15:42:23","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One way to tell when something is done is when you start to back out a lot of changes.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":25,"likes_count":165,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110930071118856192","retweet":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":1110682140721713200,"conversation_id":"1110672251102416896","created_at":1553642232000,"date":"2019-03-26","time":"23:17:12","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Since probabilities would vary a lot more than your course was unpredictable, it would sometimes be able to warn you eerily far ahead of time. If it was good enough, there would be times when it would go off as soon as you got in your car.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":38,"retweets_count":6,"likes_count":133,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110682140721713152","retweet":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":1110675396352188400,"conversation_id":"1110672251102416896","created_at":1553640624000,"date":"2019-03-26","time":"22:50:24","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Obviously it would not display the probability as a number, but rather beep and/or glow red or something when it crossed a threshold.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":29,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":134,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110675396352188419","retweet":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":1110673441525510100,"conversation_id":"1110672251102416896","created_at":1553640158000,"date":"2019-03-26","time":"22:42:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Version one just tells you about dangerous bits of road. I occasionally find myself on a bit of road that's palpably dangerous. I bet some 100 yard stretches have 1000x as many crashes per car as others. It would be helpful to be warned about these.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":46,"retweets_count":9,"likes_count":324,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110673441525510149","retweet":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":1110672251102416900,"conversation_id":"1110672251102416896","created_at":1553639874000,"date":"2019-03-26","time":"22:37:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Something I wish existed: a mobile app that dynamically calculates the probability you're about to crash your car, based on your speed, the history of the piece of road you're on, the weather, the time of day, accelerometer data, etc.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":270,"retweets_count":205,"likes_count":1806,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110672251102416896","retweet":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":1110500829142941700,"conversation_id":"1110125508363206656","created_at":1553599004000,"date":"2019-03-26","time":"11:16:44","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"That is the obvious place to start, but it's not the end of their ambition.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":11,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110500829142941697","retweet":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":1110153713627381800,"conversation_id":"1110153713627381762","created_at":1553516245000,"date":"2019-03-25","time":"12:17:25","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The architecture Kate Courteau did for Y Combinator is the opposite of McMansion architecture. Kate architecture = cheap materials put together with great care. McMansion architecture = expensive materials put together haphazardly.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":14,"likes_count":161,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110153713627381762","retweet":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":1110125508363206700,"conversation_id":"1110125508363206656","created_at":1553509520000,"date":"2019-03-25","time":"10:25:20","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Universities are backing themselves into a dangerous corner by becoming more expensive at the same time they're becoming less necessary.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":250,"retweets_count":4081,"likes_count":13005,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110125508363206656","retweet":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":1109902207326015500,"conversation_id":"1109902207326015488","created_at":1553456281000,"date":"2019-03-24","time":"19:38:01","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I've met a lot of people who were aggrieved that other people were rich and not them, and I've met a lot of people who went on to become rich, but I've never met anyone who did both.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":124,"retweets_count":841,"likes_count":4245,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1109902207326015488","retweet":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":1109897564973871100,"conversation_id":"1109897564973871106","created_at":1553455175000,"date":"2019-03-24","time":"19:19:35","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Me: If a friend asked how to get rich, what would you tell them?\n\n6 yo: Do something nobody else has done. Don't copy ideas. And make something lots of people actually want.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":62,"retweets_count":280,"likes_count":2017,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1109897564973871106","retweet":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":1109460653327163400,"conversation_id":"1109220781035307009","created_at":1553351007000,"date":"2019-03-23","time":"14:23:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Do you suppose this is why Tolkien sold more books than most other novelists?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":8,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1109460653327163394","retweet":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":1109220781035307000,"conversation_id":"1109220781035307009","created_at":1553293817000,"date":"2019-03-22","time":"22:30:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"At both Viaweb and YC, every minute I spent thinking about competitors was, in retrospect, a minute wasted.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":56,"retweets_count":511,"likes_count":2899,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1109220781035307009","retweet":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":1108087956974248000,"conversation_id":"1107870399423893504","created_at":1553023730000,"date":"2019-03-19","time":"19:28:50","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"In practice the most successful founders use a trick: when they are themselves at the leading edge of technology (as users or makers of it), and something seems obviously missing, now's the right time for it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":5,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1108087956974247936","retweet":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":1107501825454829600,"conversation_id":"1107325366643748864","created_at":1552883986000,"date":"2019-03-18","time":"04:39:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Probably writing, but I can imagine some kids where the answer would be programming.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":5,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1107501825454829569","retweet":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":1107459567527428100,"conversation_id":"1107325366643748864","created_at":1552873911000,"date":"2019-03-18","time":"01:51:51","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Because so much of what people make now is software, or has software in it. So it's somewhat like learning to read was in, say, 1500.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":25,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1107459567527428097","retweet":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":1107400840879329300,"conversation_id":"1107333485985853440","created_at":1552859909000,"date":"2019-03-17","time":"21:58:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(Yuck, I just noticed I wrote \"comprised of.\" That should be \"composed of.\")","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":60,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1107400840879329280","retweet":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":1107339221348433900,"conversation_id":"1107333485985853440","created_at":1552845218000,"date":"2019-03-17","time":"17:53:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(The reason I said Legos instead of something more concrete like modules is that in the best case the Legos are of many different types: sometimes modules, sometimes libraries, sometimes language features, sometimes how you represent data.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":101,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1107339221348433920","retweet":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":1107334091186171900,"conversation_id":"1107333485985853440","created_at":1552843995000,"date":"2019-03-17","time":"17:33:15","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I don't have a very large sample size for this, but it's been true of every program I've written. One reason it's true is that in practice the things you add aren't random. They're related to things you already have, so can share a lot of the same code.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":114,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1107334091186171905","retweet":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":1107333485985853400,"conversation_id":"1107333485985853440","created_at":1552843850000,"date":"2019-03-17","time":"17:30:50","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hypothesis: If you keep your source code as short as possible, you will in the process reduce it to the \"Legos\" your idea is comprised of, and when you need to add something, you will usually be able to using those Legos plus at most a few new ones.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":37,"retweets_count":79,"likes_count":626,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1107333485985853440","retweet":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":1107132050803327000,"conversation_id":"1107130142579523585","created_at":1552795825000,"date":"2019-03-17","time":"04:10:25","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The good thing about raising money is that it lets you choose your growth rate. But don't do it unless you want to get huge.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":5,"likes_count":59,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1107132050803326976","retweet":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":1107130142579523600,"conversation_id":"1107130142579523585","created_at":1552795370000,"date":"2019-03-17","time":"04:02:50","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When investors ask you questions about your company, don't begin with \"so.\" It's a tell that you're about to emit prefabricated sentences, and those never hold the other person's attention like actual conversation.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":81,"retweets_count":149,"likes_count":1441,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1107130142579523585","retweet":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":1107101201693372400,"conversation_id":"1107013692900720641","created_at":1552788470000,"date":"2019-03-17","time":"02:07:50","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Depends on their age. For young kids, Lego.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":2,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1107101201693372422","retweet":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":1106989224635465700,"conversation_id":"1106989224635465728","created_at":1552761772000,"date":"2019-03-16","time":"18:42:52","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Young people yearn for righteous causes.\"\n\n– Nicholas Christakis","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":53,"likes_count":394,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1106989224635465728","retweet":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":1106946197493694500,"conversation_id":"1106946093701455872","created_at":1552751514000,"date":"2019-03-16","time":"15:51:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(Your parents don't tell you how much they miss you because they don't want to be a burden or interfere in your life. But I didn't sign that NDA.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":24,"retweets_count":192,"likes_count":1855,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1106946197493694464","retweet":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":1106925395465498600,"conversation_id":"1106925395465498624","created_at":1552746554000,"date":"2019-03-16","time":"14:29:14","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"In writing, there are some problems for which there's no good general rule (whether to write 3 or three, when to capitalize) and the only solution is sleight of hand.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":101,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1106925395465498624","retweet":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":1106920697677271000,"conversation_id":"1106920271649243136","created_at":1552745434000,"date":"2019-03-16","time":"14:10:34","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(In my own head I'd transformed it into \"Lean against the problem in a friendly but persistent way,\" which I'll probably keep using.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":15,"likes_count":142,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1106920697677271040","retweet":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":1106749968230936600,"conversation_id":"1106749968230936577","created_at":1552704729000,"date":"2019-03-16","time":"02:52:09","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I just picked up White's _Medieval Technology and Social Change_ and found to my delight that I've forgotten it well enough to read it again. Now if only I could forget Wodehouse.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":124,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1106749968230936577","retweet":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":1106557871985053700,"conversation_id":"1106554021282615297","created_at":1552658930000,"date":"2019-03-15","time":"14:08:50","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I'm less sure of this one, but it may also be a good idea to optimize for extremes of age. I.e. a city that's good for children and old people will be a pleasant place to be.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":35,"retweets_count":31,"likes_count":600,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1106557871985053702","retweet":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":1106554021282615300,"conversation_id":"1106554021282615297","created_at":1552658012000,"date":"2019-03-15","time":"13:53:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hypothesis: Cities should be designed to prioritize (individual) travel in inverse proportion to speed. E.g. give walking priority over cycling and cycling priority over driving. Maybe even give sitting priority over walking.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":132,"retweets_count":309,"likes_count":1868,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1106554021282615297","retweet":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":1106543116884959200,"conversation_id":"1106543116884959234","created_at":1552655412000,"date":"2019-03-15","time":"13:10:12","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"What is the analogue in other fields to the fact that, in software, so much debugging is done with print statements?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":114,"retweets_count":26,"likes_count":321,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1106543116884959234","retweet":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":1106355077164359700,"conversation_id":"1106353993196814336","created_at":1552610580000,"date":"2019-03-15","time":"00:43:00","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Discovery is the difference between what's literally obvious and what seems obvious in hindsight.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":182,"likes_count":1075,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1106355077164359680","retweet":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":1106353993196814300,"conversation_id":"1106353993196814336","created_at":1552610321000,"date":"2019-03-15","time":"00:38:41","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"People consistently underestimate how gradually important ideas took shape. In their final form these ideas seem obvious. But empirically they weren't obvious even to those smart enough to discover them.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":47,"retweets_count":743,"likes_count":3236,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1106353993196814336","retweet":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":1105860085572493300,"conversation_id":"1105859462395396096","created_at":1552492564000,"date":"2019-03-13","time":"15:56:04","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Being worth investing in doesn't mean your startup is guaranteed to succeed, but merely that the expected value is higher than the valuation you're asking. If the outcome if you succeed is big enough, the probability can be surprisingly low. In early rounds, a couple percent.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":45,"likes_count":428,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1105860085572493312","retweet":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":1105859786837418000,"conversation_id":"1105859462395396096","created_at":1552492493000,"date":"2019-03-13","time":"15:54:53","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The way to seem confident about your startup is to honestly ask yourself if it's worth investing in. If the answer is no, don't raise money.  If it's yes, then when you tell people they should invest, you'll have the confidence that comes naturally from telling the truth.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":64,"likes_count":592,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1105859786837417984","retweet":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":1105859462395396100,"conversation_id":"1105859462395396096","created_at":1552492416000,"date":"2019-03-13","time":"15:53:36","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Investors like founders who seem confident. But the way to seem confident is not to act confident. Investors see through that.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":24,"retweets_count":151,"likes_count":923,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1105859462395396096","retweet":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":1104695783897604100,"conversation_id":"1104695783897604103","created_at":1552214973000,"date":"2019-03-10","time":"10:49:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Moderate\" is what you get called when you're uncompromising about doing the right thing, rather than being uncompromising about your ideological orthodoxy.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":48,"retweets_count":250,"likes_count":1486,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1104695783897604103","retweet":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":1104414904717660200,"conversation_id":"1104414904717660167","created_at":1552148006000,"date":"2019-03-09","time":"16:13:26","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Shorter programs are easier to refactor. That means refactoring tends to accelerate. We're rarely fortunate enough to experience that. But I bet most big software projects experience the opposite: that bloat breeds bloat.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":24,"retweets_count":78,"likes_count":450,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1104414904717660167","retweet":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":1103609502224519200,"conversation_id":"1103609502224519168","created_at":1551955984000,"date":"2019-03-07","time":"10:53:04","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The funny thing is, Tim Cook does actually look the way a character called Tim Apple would be drawn in a children's book.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":17,"retweets_count":34,"likes_count":587,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1103609502224519168","retweet":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":1103605806614884400,"conversation_id":"1103605051589869568","created_at":1551955102000,"date":"2019-03-07","time":"10:38:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The independent-mindedness of startup founders even puts them at odds with their own employees, many of whom don't mind being told what to do (and thus also don't mind the government telling everyone what to do).","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":28,"likes_count":351,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1103605806614884353","retweet":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":1103605141687681000,"conversation_id":"1103605051589869568","created_at":1551954944000,"date":"2019-03-07","time":"10:35:44","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"This has all sorts of implications. For example, it means that success as an employee of a large organization is no predictor (in fact is probably a negative predictor) of success as a founder.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":35,"likes_count":407,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1103605141687681024","retweet":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":1103605051589869600,"conversation_id":"1103605051589869568","created_at":1551954922000,"date":"2019-03-07","time":"10:35:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Some people, perhaps most people, don't mind being told what to do. But I have never met a successful startup CEO I'd say that of.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":54,"retweets_count":343,"likes_count":1958,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1103605051589869568","retweet":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":1103244516721676300,"conversation_id":"1103243272317743104","created_at":1551868964000,"date":"2019-03-06","time":"10:42:44","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(I know great discoveries don't generally come from explicitly seeking novelty, but from trying to solve problems and not disregarding novel solutions. But this principle could still be useful. E.g. if you noticed you were already doing it, and were encouraged to continue.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":105,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1103244516721676289","retweet":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":1103243668360740900,"conversation_id":"1103243272317743104","created_at":1551868762000,"date":"2019-03-06","time":"10:39:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Intriguingly, this suggests another route to great discoveries. Everyone knows novelty is important. But perhaps you could also get to them by starting with novelty and cranking up the obviousness.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":12,"likes_count":173,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1103243668360740864","retweet":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":1103243272317743100,"conversation_id":"1103243272317743104","created_at":1551868668000,"date":"2019-03-06","time":"10:37:48","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When an idea seems simultaneously obvious and novel, it's probably an important discovery.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":29,"retweets_count":281,"likes_count":1462,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1103243272317743104","retweet":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":1103031311462293500,"conversation_id":"1103029852037398535","created_at":1551818132000,"date":"2019-03-05","time":"20:35:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"6 yo: Why don't you keep this somewhere where archaeologists will find it in, maybe, a thousand years?\n\nMe: Uh, ok. \n\nThen I realized I may have just done that...","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":337,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1103031311462293505","retweet":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":1102948446141464600,"conversation_id":"1102948446141464576","created_at":1551798376000,"date":"2019-03-05","time":"15:06:16","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Persistence hunting works for ideas too.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":49,"likes_count":290,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1102948446141464576","retweet":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":1102906393420533800,"conversation_id":"1102902299255586816","created_at":1551788349000,"date":"2019-03-05","time":"12:19:09","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I personally think this is, if not good, at least inevitable. Ideas and money want to find each other, and as a result the gap between them has closed inexorably over time.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":36,"likes_count":292,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1102906393420533760","retweet":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":1102904181441134600,"conversation_id":"1102902299255586816","created_at":1551787822000,"date":"2019-03-05","time":"12:10:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Warning: The decreasing gap between ideas and money is one of the main reasons for increasing economic inequality. People's ideas vary dramatically in value. So the more direct the connection between ideas and money, the more inequality you'll see.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":56,"likes_count":423,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1102904181441134592","retweet":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":1102902773518078000,"conversation_id":"1102902299255586816","created_at":1551787486000,"date":"2019-03-05","time":"12:04:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Reliable source of startup ideas: reduce the gap between ideas and money. \n\nIn this sense, AWS and Stripe are in the same business.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":49,"likes_count":444,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1102902773518077954","retweet":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":1102902299255586800,"conversation_id":"1102902299255586816","created_at":1551787373000,"date":"2019-03-05","time":"12:02:53","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One of the biggest differences between now and the past is how rapidly ideas become money. Now ideas can become money as soon as you put them on a server and set up credit card processing. (And cryptocurrency may soon eliminate the second step.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":43,"retweets_count":519,"likes_count":1929,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1102902299255586816","retweet":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":1102887854328426500,"conversation_id":"1102887854328426498","created_at":1551783929000,"date":"2019-03-05","time":"11:05:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"I may be an adult, but I'll never give away my taste for excitement.\"\n\n– 6 yo","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":35,"likes_count":513,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1102887854328426498","retweet":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":1101900435571593200,"conversation_id":"1101900435571593218","created_at":1551548510000,"date":"2019-03-02","time":"17:41:50","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"We inadvertently discovered a cure for our 10 yo's addiction to a certain junk food. On a winding road, our 6 yo became carsick. The only thing for him to barf in was a half-finished bag of the 10 yo's favorite snacks. The 10 yo hasn't eaten them since.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":46,"retweets_count":42,"likes_count":1113,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1101900435571593218","retweet":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":1101072362487902200,"conversation_id":"1101071526395342850","created_at":1551351082000,"date":"2019-02-28","time":"10:51:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I.e. it only covers a subset of the possibilities, but quite a large subset, and it will protect you from a thousand pitfalls you don't even know exist.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":14,"likes_count":331,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1101072362487902208","retweet":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":1101071526395342800,"conversation_id":"1101071526395342850","created_at":1551350883000,"date":"2019-02-28","time":"10:48:03","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Build something you yourself want\" is to startups what \"Write what you know\" is to writing.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":27,"retweets_count":192,"likes_count":1111,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1101071526395342850","retweet":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":1101063341747961900,"conversation_id":"1101062197684457477","created_at":1551348932000,"date":"2019-02-28","time":"10:15:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Obviously this won't work for all startups. Boom or Oklo can't avoid spending before growth. But even in cases like those you can adapt the recipe. Just replace \"growth\" with \"convincingness to investors.\" E.g. hitting milestones.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":11,"likes_count":164,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1101063341747961856","retweet":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":1101062567999483900,"conversation_id":"1101062197684457477","created_at":1551348747000,"date":"2019-02-28","time":"10:12:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"This recipe will beat all three: ship quickly, then relentlessly optimize for growth, and don't hire a lot of people till you have it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":9,"retweets_count":74,"likes_count":562,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1101062567999483904","retweet":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":1101062197684457500,"conversation_id":"1101062197684457477","created_at":1551348659000,"date":"2019-02-28","time":"10:10:59","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Someone wondered how startups fail. In most cases, because they don't make something people want. That can happen by (a) failing to ship, (b) shipping but never getting any growth, or (c) mediocre growth combined with high expenses.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":18,"retweets_count":211,"likes_count":958,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1101062197684457477","retweet":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":1100885951033811000,"conversation_id":"1100885951033810947","created_at":1551306638000,"date":"2019-02-27","time":"22:30:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Startups don't win by having a cleverer fundraising strategy than their competitors. They win by having a better product. So focus on your product, not on optimizing fundraising.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":97,"retweets_count":937,"likes_count":3792,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1100885951033810947","retweet":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":1100808963023691800,"conversation_id":"1100808963023691778","created_at":1551288283000,"date":"2019-02-27","time":"17:24:43","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Few have the confidence to be tentative.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":26,"retweets_count":133,"likes_count":788,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1100808963023691778","retweet":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":1099652786126536700,"conversation_id":"1099648817601921024","created_at":1551012629000,"date":"2019-02-24","time":"12:50:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Sounds crazy I know, but many people seem to think that's a bad trade.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":19,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099652786126536706","retweet":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":1099649034233540600,"conversation_id":"1099648817601921024","created_at":1551011734000,"date":"2019-02-24","time":"12:35:34","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I'll warn you in advance, though, that the switch will probably increase rather than decrease economic inequality. The replacements for meat will be created by startups, which means more Bezoses, and will simultaneously put lots of small farmers out of business.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":89,"retweets_count":69,"likes_count":777,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099649034233540608","retweet":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":1099648921180217300,"conversation_id":"1099648817601921024","created_at":1551011707000,"date":"2019-02-24","time":"12:35:07","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Predictions about the future often turn out to be false, but I'm going to risk predicting a rapid switch away from meat at some point. It's rocket-science hard, but no harder, and there is a huge amount of money to be made. Ergo it will happen.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":29,"retweets_count":81,"likes_count":746,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099648921180217345","retweet":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":1099648817601921000,"conversation_id":"1099648817601921024","created_at":1551011683000,"date":"2019-02-24","time":"12:34:43","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"People have little loyalty to meat per se. If you made something that was cheaper and tasted better, most carnivores would switch. Once that shift started, social pressure against eating meat would grow rapidly. It would seem, and in fact would be, perverse.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":294,"retweets_count":380,"likes_count":2225,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099648817601921024","retweet":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":1099647246726037500,"conversation_id":"1099647246726037504","created_at":1551011308000,"date":"2019-02-24","time":"12:28:28","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"With something that increases at a superlinear rate, like technology, saying \"x isn't possible yet\" is like standing on a sheet of ice and saying \"I'm not falling yet.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":89,"likes_count":469,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099647246726037504","retweet":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":1099630803187916800,"conversation_id":"1099629579852046336","created_at":1551007388000,"date":"2019-02-24","time":"11:23:08","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's convenient that nuclear energy is at the \"explosion of ideas\" stage at just the moment when climate change is looking like a very hard problem to solve. Maybe these two jigsaw puzzle pieces fit together.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":17,"likes_count":165,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099630803187916800","retweet":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":1099096682376114200,"conversation_id":"1099096682376114176","created_at":1550880043000,"date":"2019-02-23","time":"00:00:43","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One of the surprising things about being a parent is the degree to which the instinctive protectiveness that kicks in transfers to other kids. You don't just notice when your kid gets too near the curb; you notice when any kid does.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":58,"retweets_count":152,"likes_count":1875,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099096682376114176","retweet":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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