{"id":1098682240316395500,"conversation_id":"1098682240316395525","created_at":1550781233000,"date":"2019-02-21","time":"20:33:53","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"You can tell what used booksellers think of philosophy from the fact that they usually shelve it next to religion and the occult.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":44,"retweets_count":29,"likes_count":422,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1098682240316395525","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1098331340037066800,"conversation_id":"1098330072900124678","created_at":1550697572000,"date":"2019-02-20","time":"21:19:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Which is a good counterargument incidentally to people who say \"why do you need privacy if you've done nothing wrong?\" Anyone who does any kind of creative work has something to hide: their early drafts.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":17,"retweets_count":46,"likes_count":412,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1098331340037066766","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1098330734169940000,"conversation_id":"1098330072900124678","created_at":1550697427000,"date":"2019-02-20","time":"21:17:07","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It was an interesting experience, but I decided afterward that I wouldn't want to write everything this way. It made me reluctant to take risks when I knew everything I typed would eventually get seen.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":9,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":83,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1098330734169939968","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1098328049366503400,"conversation_id":"1098328049366503425","created_at":1550696787000,"date":"2019-02-20","time":"21:06:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"∀x(P(x) → Q(x))\n\nTwitter: Yawn. That is so obvious.\n\nP(a) → Q(a)\n\nTwitter: Outrage!","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":48,"likes_count":311,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1098328049366503425","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1097951649371426800,"conversation_id":"1097848463960797185","created_at":1550607046000,"date":"2019-02-19","time":"20:10:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Interesting. Yes, it sounds like Jeeves, because Wodehouse gave him Victorian diction.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":2,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097951649371426817","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1097848463960797200,"conversation_id":"1097848463960797185","created_at":1550582445000,"date":"2019-02-19","time":"13:20:45","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Historians of the most opposite parties relate that one day, towards the end of January 1536, the queen, unexpectedly entering a room in the palace, found the king paying his court to the young maid of honor in too marked a manner.\"  \n\n– d'Aubigné","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":40,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097848463960797185","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1097626722885869600,"conversation_id":"1097608572181966848","created_at":1550529578000,"date":"2019-02-18","time":"22:39:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The sheer variety of suggestions here show just how little of that space has been explored. Possibly the answer is a meta-solution: a service whose explicit policy is to experiment and evolve rapidly, in contrast to the extreme conservatism of Twitter.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":29,"retweets_count":11,"likes_count":153,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097626722885869572","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1097624337350361100,"conversation_id":"1097608572181966848","created_at":1550529009000,"date":"2019-02-18","time":"22:30:09","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Possibly something like that. That's how conversations work at a party.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":15,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097624337350361088","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1097609158021525500,"conversation_id":"1097608572181966848","created_at":1550525390000,"date":"2019-02-18","time":"21:29:50","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I wonder if there is something halfway between Twitter and email. I don't know what that would even look like, but there may be; I suspect only a small part of the space of possibilities for forums has been explored.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":87,"retweets_count":31,"likes_count":415,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097609158021525505","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1097608572181966800,"conversation_id":"1097608572181966848","created_at":1550525250000,"date":"2019-02-18","time":"21:27:30","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Simultaneously having a reasonable conversation with Saikat Chakrabarti by email while a series of angry people (presumably less informed than him about Ocasio-Cortez's policy) call me names on Twitter makes it clear how useless Twitter is for talking about anything complicated.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":47,"retweets_count":36,"likes_count":587,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097608572181966848","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1097472108983132200,"conversation_id":"1097472108983132161","created_at":1550492715000,"date":"2019-02-18","time":"12:25:15","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Underrated measure of code complexity: the number of things you have names for. This is why I like higher order functions. You don't need as many parameter names.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":34,"likes_count":276,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097472108983132161","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1097451652796305400,"conversation_id":"1097450981590265858","created_at":1550487838000,"date":"2019-02-18","time":"11:03:58","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I think that's why so many people who wouldn't be directly affected by her tax increase are opposed to it. It's not that they're too stupid to realize they wouldn't be in the top tax bracket. They just don't like the underlying principle.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":74,"retweets_count":35,"likes_count":540,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097451652796305408","retweet":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":1097450981590265900,"conversation_id":"1097450981590265858","created_at":1550487678000,"date":"2019-02-18","time":"11:01:18","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Try this thought experiment: If new technology suddenly made it cheap to fix climate change, would Ocasio-Cortez stop wanting to raise taxes? I would guess not. I think the desire to raise taxes precedes the choice of how to spend the money.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":460,"retweets_count":306,"likes_count":2246,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097450981590265858","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1097437688842670100,"conversation_id":"1097217766262800384","created_at":1550484509000,"date":"2019-02-18","time":"10:08:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Yes, I use it for everything.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":2,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097437688842670081","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1097217766262800400,"conversation_id":"1097217766262800384","created_at":1550432075000,"date":"2019-02-17","time":"19:34:35","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"In college I used emacs. When I showed up in grad school, they had some computers on which control-x or control-s (I forget which) froze the screen. So I used vi while I waited for someone to show up that I could ask about this. I've used vi ever since.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":56,"retweets_count":37,"likes_count":728,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097217766262800384","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1096768518866063400,"conversation_id":"1096768518866063360","created_at":1550324966000,"date":"2019-02-16","time":"13:49:26","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Anyone else notice Twitter is more thoughtful and less angry on weekends? Is it because angry people don't use it on weekends, or because everyone is in a better mood on weekends?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":216,"retweets_count":187,"likes_count":1835,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1096768518866063360","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1096719394632331300,"conversation_id":"1096713191659319296","created_at":1550313254000,"date":"2019-02-16","time":"10:34:14","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I'm not saying retweet-with-comment per se is bad. There are good things you can do with it. It's just a bad way to engage with someone you disagree with.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":16,"likes_count":125,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1096719394632331265","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1096713374350622700,"conversation_id":"1096713191659319296","created_at":1550311819000,"date":"2019-02-16","time":"10:10:19","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"On Twitter you can use retweet-with-comment as a test of this. You don't engage earnestly with someone by quote-tweeting them. Retweet-with-comment is a way to tell _other_ people (who already agree with you) \"look what this idiot said.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":49,"likes_count":218,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1096713374350622720","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1096713191659319300,"conversation_id":"1096713191659319296","created_at":1550311775000,"date":"2019-02-16","time":"10:09:35","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Some people who complain want to make things better. Others want attention, or just like to complain. How do you tell them apart?  The ones who want to make things better engage earnestly with those they disagree with, to try to convert them to their point of view.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":42,"retweets_count":178,"likes_count":662,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1096713191659319296","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1096347582681493500,"conversation_id":"1096344555329409024","created_at":1550224607000,"date":"2019-02-15","time":"09:56:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"At this point the YC partners are thinking \"Noooo! Thousands more applications for collaboration apps!\" Collaboration apps are indeed the base state of YC applications. But maybe that's because everyone senses there's something to be discovered here.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":18,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":158,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1096347582681493506","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1096346649801252900,"conversation_id":"1096344555329409024","created_at":1550224385000,"date":"2019-02-15","time":"09:53:05","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Arguably GitHub and GitLab are this for code. So if there is an answer, better Twitter and more general GitHub/GitLab converge on it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":93,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1096346649801252864","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1096345794578395100,"conversation_id":"1096344555329409024","created_at":1550224181000,"date":"2019-02-15","time":"09:49:41","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Twitter has turned out to be a great way to channel the dark side of this force. Is it possible to create something that channels the good side of it? I don't know if there's an answer to that. But if there is, it would be one hell of a startup idea.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":29,"retweets_count":16,"likes_count":189,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1096345794578395136","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1096344960394297300,"conversation_id":"1096344555329409024","created_at":1550223982000,"date":"2019-02-15","time":"09:46:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Collaboration\" is too weak a word for this. It doesn't capture the miraculous way in which it violates conservation of morale.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":9,"likes_count":141,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1096344960394297344","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1096344555329409000,"conversation_id":"1096344555329409024","created_at":1550223885000,"date":"2019-02-15","time":"09:44:45","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Two people can talk themselves into doing something neither would do alone. This force has a dark side. It drives bullying and, for large n, mobs. But it also produces some amazing things.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":24,"retweets_count":122,"likes_count":778,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1096344555329409024","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095993046276194300,"conversation_id":"1095993046276194304","created_at":1550140079000,"date":"2019-02-14","time":"10:27:59","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Starting from the most abstract principles is a good way to relearn something, but a bad way to learn something.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":55,"retweets_count":321,"likes_count":1826,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095993046276194304","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095987054851301400,"conversation_id":"1095987054851301376","created_at":1550138650000,"date":"2019-02-14","time":"10:04:10","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"This sounds obvious, but since so many people act as if they didn't know it, I'm going to say it anyway:\n\nDoing something at all is a prerequisite for doing it well.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":33,"retweets_count":472,"likes_count":2378,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095987054851301376","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095974875645337600,"conversation_id":"1095974292049879040","created_at":1550135747000,"date":"2019-02-14","time":"09:15:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Come to think of it, this works for any motives. I'd readily believe anyone would do something out of curiosity. But you don't need to trick people who aren't bad (unless you yourself are).","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":97,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095974875645337601","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095974292049879000,"conversation_id":"1095974292049879040","created_at":1550135608000,"date":"2019-02-14","time":"09:13:28","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Taught my kids a way to trick bad people. Most bad people assume everyone else has the same motives, so they'll believe you want to do x if they'd want to. E.g. a selfish person will believe you'd want to do something selfish.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":28,"retweets_count":31,"likes_count":257,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095974292049879040","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095674381190262800,"conversation_id":"1095673854171713536","created_at":1550064103000,"date":"2019-02-13","time":"13:21:43","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"That's why I hate it when someone posts something online and people put it down, saying it's not really new. This is not merely mean-spirited, but often factually wrong too. Whole new worlds grow from tiny deltas of novelty.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":40,"retweets_count":152,"likes_count":1195,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095674381190262785","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095674029980020700,"conversation_id":"1095673854171713536","created_at":1550064020000,"date":"2019-02-13","time":"13:20:20","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's easiest to parse something new as a delta on something old. But to judge an idea properly you have to project it forward in time, not back. Which is so hard to do that the only wise course is to reserve judgment.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":62,"likes_count":507,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095674029980020737","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095673854171713500,"conversation_id":"1095673854171713536","created_at":1550063978000,"date":"2019-02-13","time":"13:19:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Many of the most important discoveries read at first like small tweaks to something that already existed. Often their own inventors initially thought of them this way.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":26,"retweets_count":295,"likes_count":1315,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095673854171713536","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095622686821285900,"conversation_id":"1095622686821285888","created_at":1550051778000,"date":"2019-02-13","time":"09:56:18","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Trend I've noticed in children's books: using uppercase for emphasis (because kids don't get italics). Anyone know when this started? It wasn't in books when I was a kid, though it probably was in comics.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":53,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095622686821285888","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095618020909740000,"conversation_id":"1095617018320117760","created_at":1550050666000,"date":"2019-02-13","time":"09:37:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The most obvious variant is not to buy things you like the idea of owning rather than the experience of owning. E.g. the prestigious object that's actually inferior to the ordinary one. But the underlying principle extends to dating and even to what you do with your life.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":55,"likes_count":401,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095618020909740033","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095617018320117800,"conversation_id":"1095617018320117760","created_at":1550050427000,"date":"2019-02-13","time":"09:33:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Don't seek things you like the idea of having rather than the experience of having.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":23,"retweets_count":164,"likes_count":956,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095617018320117760","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095404454382309400,"conversation_id":"1095404097509961729","created_at":1549999748000,"date":"2019-02-12","time":"19:29:08","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I also suspect that there's a principle in here akin to Moore's Law. If so I propose we call it Erlichman's Law.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":11,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":52,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095404454382309383","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095311560816369700,"conversation_id":"1095311560816369664","created_at":1549977600000,"date":"2019-02-12","time":"13:20:00","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"This computer was me. And everything had to be as perfect as could be made.\"\n\n– Wozniak on the Apple II","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":99,"likes_count":804,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095311560816369664","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095034134869798900,"conversation_id":"1095032899080982528","created_at":1549911457000,"date":"2019-02-11","time":"18:57:37","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"And of course...\n\nDecacorn: A startup whose valuation is at least $10b (and thus according to Robert Reich is ipso facto a monopoly that should be broken up).","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":117,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095034134869798913","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1095032899080982500,"conversation_id":"1095032899080982528","created_at":1549911162000,"date":"2019-02-11","time":"18:52:42","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Demicorn: A startup whose valuation is between $500m and $1b.\n\n(A ghastly neologism, and yet also the obvious one.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":21,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":155,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1095032899080982528","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094908659568689200,"conversation_id":"1094908659568689152","created_at":1549881541000,"date":"2019-02-11","time":"10:39:01","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Lisp's parentheses are the bumps on the top of Lego.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":22,"likes_count":135,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094908659568689152","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094715560338878500,"conversation_id":"1094713856902029312","created_at":1549835503000,"date":"2019-02-10","time":"21:51:43","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(This is sort of like retweeting your own tweets, because I posted a version of this as a GIF back when Twitter only allowed 140 characters.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":39,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094715560338878464","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094713856902029300,"conversation_id":"1094713856902029312","created_at":1549835096000,"date":"2019-02-10","time":"21:44:56","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Lies spread faster than the truth because people need lies more. It's easy to find confirmation for correct beliefs, but confirmation for mistaken ones is rare. So people with mistaken beliefs are starving for confirmation of them, and eagerly consume anything that offers it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":57,"retweets_count":309,"likes_count":1240,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094713856902029312","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094628329339215900,"conversation_id":"1094627117483130880","created_at":1549814705000,"date":"2019-02-10","time":"16:05:05","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I'm still unsure about the whole question of \"screen time.\" One thing I'm not unsure about is that a lot of the monetization mechanisms are evil. FIFA = gambling. But I know that's no argument against games per se.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":24,"retweets_count":9,"likes_count":95,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094628329339215872","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094627117483130900,"conversation_id":"1094627117483130880","created_at":1549814416000,"date":"2019-02-10","time":"16:00:16","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"You could make a case that it's a step forward that our kids play with virtual toys (= video games) rather than physical ones. If video games hadn't taken off, maybe we'd be complaining kids were so literal-minded they had to have actual physical toys","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":12,"likes_count":111,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094627117483130880","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094531179531898900,"conversation_id":"1094530399345229824","created_at":1549791543000,"date":"2019-02-10","time":"09:39:03","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"You can't figure out whether you're better than borderline promising from investors' reactions. If you're borderline promising, investors will still want to continue the conversation, and will seem encouraging. You have to use your own judgment, or ask an unbiased third party.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":9,"likes_count":135,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094531179531898880","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094530804770893800,"conversation_id":"1094530399345229824","created_at":1549791453000,"date":"2019-02-10","time":"09:37:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The most dangerous case of all is for a startup to seem borderline promising when they have less than 6 months of money left. At that point you should assume you have to become profitable on the money you have left, or die.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":18,"likes_count":176,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094530804770893825","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094530399345229800,"conversation_id":"1094530399345229824","created_at":1549791357000,"date":"2019-02-10","time":"09:35:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The worst thing to seem to investors is borderline promising. If a startup is obviously promising, you'll raise money easily. If it's obviously unpromising, you'll get an immediate no. But if it's borderline promising, the no will come after sucking up months of your attention.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":18,"retweets_count":86,"likes_count":598,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094530399345229824","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094354020087595000,"conversation_id":"1094354020087595008","created_at":1549749305000,"date":"2019-02-09","time":"21:55:05","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It's sad to see someone I respect attacking someone else I respect on Twitter. But the surprising thing, considering the fog of war that generally prevails here, is that this happens so rarely. Perhaps it's because I wouldn't follow someone who initiated a lot of attacks.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":26,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":239,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094354020087595008","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094332138546217000,"conversation_id":"1094332138546216962","created_at":1549744088000,"date":"2019-02-09","time":"20:28:08","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Good game to play with small children: go through the alphabet naming some category of things (countries, animals, professional football players) beginning with each letter.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":34,"retweets_count":27,"likes_count":304,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094332138546216962","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094292687656812500,"conversation_id":"1094275768769761281","created_at":1549734682000,"date":"2019-02-09","time":"17:51:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I think the people who've been suggesting German are on the right track. Possibly teeschmerz...","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":84,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094292687656812544","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094275768769761300,"conversation_id":"1094275768769761281","created_at":1549730648000,"date":"2019-02-09","time":"16:44:08","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"There should be a word for finding the cup of tea you'd been looking forward to drinking, now cold and undrunk.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":120,"retweets_count":59,"likes_count":760,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094275768769761281","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094237209736216600,"conversation_id":"1094233749343125504","created_at":1549721455000,"date":"2019-02-09","time":"14:10:55","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"More than ever.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":57,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094237209736216576","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094233749343125500,"conversation_id":"1094233749343125504","created_at":1549720630000,"date":"2019-02-09","time":"13:57:10","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Be a founder\" is for would-be VCs what \"Learn to code\" is for would-be founders. Advice that's both straightforward and guaranteed to be worth the effort, yet many shrink from because of the work involved.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":25,"retweets_count":183,"likes_count":1107,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094233749343125504","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1094232116961964000,"conversation_id":"1094232116961964032","created_at":1549720241000,"date":"2019-02-09","time":"13:50:41","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"All the best investors I know are more like founders than investors: Fred Wilson, Mike Moritz, Pmarca, Ben Horowitz, Keith Rabois. What do I mean by like founders? Informal, pragmatic, genuinely interested in products and not just in money.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":78,"retweets_count":714,"likes_count":4187,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1094232116961964032","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1093825945750986800,"conversation_id":"1093825945750986752","created_at":1549623402000,"date":"2019-02-08","time":"10:56:42","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Investors and journalists are both in the business of predicting startup outcomes. But investors get paid for making predictions that are correct, and journalists for making predictions that are interesting.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":69,"retweets_count":293,"likes_count":1699,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1093825945750986752","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1093649847360647200,"conversation_id":"1093649847360647174","created_at":1549581417000,"date":"2019-02-07","time":"23:16:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Such a sensuality we have in observing and improving the imperfections of others, that it is become the grand excellence of the Age to be Dextrous at it, and Wit serves some men for little else.\"\n\n– Richard Allestree, 1675","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":34,"likes_count":121,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1093649847360647174","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1093640139602047000,"conversation_id":"1093640139602046976","created_at":1549579102000,"date":"2019-02-07","time":"22:38:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Found a fabulous book published in 1675 called The Governance of the Tongue. It's basically about trolls. Chapters include \"Of Detraction,\" \"Of Lying Defamation,\" and \"Of Scoffing and Derision.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":35,"likes_count":339,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1093640139602046976","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1093457363351289900,"conversation_id":"1093457086858620929","created_at":1549535525000,"date":"2019-02-07","time":"10:32:05","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Corollary: Sufficiently successful startups always end up competing with one another, even if they start in completely different markets.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":21,"likes_count":347,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1093457363351289858","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1093457086858620900,"conversation_id":"1093457086858620929","created_at":1549535459000,"date":"2019-02-07","time":"10:30:59","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One of the most surprising things I've learned from watching so many startups is that markets are far more adjacent than most people realize. You can get anywhere in 3 hops.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":76,"likes_count":593,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1093457086858620929","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1093437611056775200,"conversation_id":"1093437611056775168","created_at":1549530816000,"date":"2019-02-07","time":"09:13:36","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Any optimistic project creates the opportunity to seem clever by cynically dismissing it. Fortunately (or unfortunately) most nerds learn this at about 12. By adulthood it has little effect on them.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":103,"likes_count":517,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1093437611056775168","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1093225472417239000,"conversation_id":"1093223889671475202","created_at":1549480238000,"date":"2019-02-06","time":"19:10:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The big thing advocates of central planning didn't get about market economies is that the flows of money in a market economy are also flows of information.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":37,"retweets_count":208,"likes_count":1019,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1093225472417239040","retweet":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":1092747788562169900,"conversation_id":"1092747788562169858","created_at":1549366349000,"date":"2019-02-05","time":"11:32:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Vieken Schmake, Thierry Montesso, William Moore, Cavri Hosen, Jovalis Severanius, Itato Jemino, Thomas Cabrazon, Nerminy van Leitru, Jerry Robinson, Leonid Plutron, Sentengo Gillemaivin.\n\n– characters in a football story dictated to me by 6 yo","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":51,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1092747788562169858","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1092744702183514100,"conversation_id":"1092744702183514112","created_at":1549365613000,"date":"2019-02-05","time":"11:20:13","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Unexpected benefit of international football: it greatly increases small children's knowledge of geography. Most of the countries my 6 yo knows about, he knows from their football teams. For him at least, Modric & Co literally put Croatia on the map.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":44,"retweets_count":50,"likes_count":527,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1092744702183514112","retweet":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":1092742838297727000,"conversation_id":"1092742838297726976","created_at":1549365169000,"date":"2019-02-05","time":"11:12:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"Can I walk around so I can get ideas in my head to think about when I'm lying down?\"\n\n– 6 yo at bedtime","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":26,"likes_count":311,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1092742838297726976","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1092421883914584000,"conversation_id":"1092421883914584064","created_at":1549288647000,"date":"2019-02-04","time":"13:57:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Ad-supported news means we all get news aimed at people who click on ads. Which is a far from random sample.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":54,"retweets_count":308,"likes_count":1797,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1092421883914584064","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1092356203638915100,"conversation_id":"1092318820310474753","created_at":1549272988000,"date":"2019-02-04","time":"09:36:28","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Yes. It also taught me what to look for in a startup.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":30,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1092356203638915074","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1092126798777864200,"conversation_id":"1092126798777864198","created_at":1549218294000,"date":"2019-02-03","time":"18:24:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"10 yo: This is your popcorn.\n\n6 yo: I want that bowl.\n\n10 yo: They're the same size.\n\n6 yo: If they were the same size, you'd be willing to trade.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":86,"retweets_count":325,"likes_count":4200,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1092126798777864198","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1092096216089927700,"conversation_id":"1092096216089927681","created_at":1549211002000,"date":"2019-02-03","time":"16:23:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Old things often have the kind of elegance that comes from following the path of least resistance.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":19,"retweets_count":22,"likes_count":272,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1092096216089927681","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1091711454020071400,"conversation_id":"1091710976884465664","created_at":1549119268000,"date":"2019-02-02","time":"14:54:28","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Everyone knows about (a) and (b), so the biggest mistake people make in understanding performance, in so many different contexts, is ignoring the role of (c).","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":30,"retweets_count":54,"likes_count":445,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1091711454020071424","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1091710976884465700,"conversation_id":"1091710976884465664","created_at":1549119154000,"date":"2019-02-02","time":"14:52:34","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"My 10 year old asked how to be good at things. I told him that how good people were at something depended on: (a) natural ability, (b) practice, and (c) how into it they were.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":55,"retweets_count":293,"likes_count":1542,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1091710976884465664","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090963938458488800,"conversation_id":"1090963938458488834","created_at":1548941046000,"date":"2019-01-31","time":"13:24:06","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hypothesis: You can learn a lot about a culture from what they have to borrow words for. E.g. it's a good sign we had to borrow schadenfreude, but worrying that we had to borrow joie de vivre.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":85,"retweets_count":196,"likes_count":1253,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090963938458488834","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090937193064030200,"conversation_id":"1090937193064030208","created_at":1548934670000,"date":"2019-01-31","time":"11:37:50","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Proposal: Your T Score is the number of tweets/replies since you've said something to or about someone on Twitter that a moderately civil person wouldn't say to them face to face.\n\nHypothesis: High T Scores predict high performance in a range of activities.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":24,"retweets_count":20,"likes_count":196,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090937193064030208","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090864283183915000,"conversation_id":"1090863103611453440","created_at":1548917287000,"date":"2019-01-31","time":"06:48:07","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(I have some misgivings about this format, because it means the text isn't really online anywhere, just some pixels that represent text. But I'm tired of threads.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":11,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":130,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090864283183915008","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090726587119661000,"conversation_id":"1090605805290864646","created_at":1548884457000,"date":"2019-01-30","time":"21:40:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hrm, so like \"How to Do What You Love\" but for 6 year olds?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":34,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090726587119661056","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090676649102839800,"conversation_id":"1090674332517453824","created_at":1548872551000,"date":"2019-01-30","time":"18:22:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Or it could be that ever more users are using it on phones, which in turn means constantly checking Twitter. Or that Twitter has somehow changed itself to make people check it more frequently.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":32,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090676649102839808","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090674332517453800,"conversation_id":"1090674332517453824","created_at":1548871999000,"date":"2019-01-30","time":"18:13:19","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Likes have a sharper spike than they used to. Twitter must be predicting what people will like and showing it to them. But only till there's something else to show them. Which means from the consumer's POV, Twitter has sped up.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":103,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090674332517453824","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090668126071603200,"conversation_id":"1090605805290864646","created_at":1548870519000,"date":"2019-01-30","time":"17:48:39","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"What about?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":5,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090668126071603200","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090666464951054300,"conversation_id":"1090666464951054336","created_at":1548870123000,"date":"2019-01-30","time":"17:42:03","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Parents inevitably supply mostly don't because kids supply so much do.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":11,"likes_count":130,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090666464951054336","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090666297338282000,"conversation_id":"1090666297338281984","created_at":1548870083000,"date":"2019-01-30","time":"17:41:23","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Asked my 10 yo son what parents say all the time. \n\n\"Be careful.\" \n\n\"Don't nag me.\" \n\n\"Don't be mean to your little brother.\" \n\nAll admonitions, and all don'ts, which is a little unfortunate. Probably unrealistic to hope otherwise though.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":27,"retweets_count":23,"likes_count":251,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090666297338281984","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090608908534800400,"conversation_id":"1090605805290864646","created_at":1548856400000,"date":"2019-01-30","time":"13:53:20","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Airbnb for example. What rational person would work on such an unpromising idea? But we could see that they were like us in being really into their apparently unpromising idea, so we suspended our disbelief.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":26,"retweets_count":43,"likes_count":377,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090608908534800384","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090608294975234000,"conversation_id":"1090605805290864646","created_at":1548856254000,"date":"2019-01-30","time":"13:50:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Y Combinator itself was an instance of this pattern. We had no idea if it would make money. But it seemed like a cool thing to try. And being an instance of this pattern helped us to see it in startups that applied.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":25,"likes_count":288,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090608294975234050","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090606549582655500,"conversation_id":"1090605805290864646","created_at":1548855838000,"date":"2019-01-30","time":"13:43:58","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One reason big companies can't do what startups can is that people in big companies aren't allowed to have this kind of irrationality. You can't work on something just because it seems cool. You have to explain what the benefits will be. A reasonable request. All too reasonable.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":23,"retweets_count":148,"likes_count":705,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090606549582655488","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090605805290864600,"conversation_id":"1090605805290864646","created_at":1548855661000,"date":"2019-01-30","time":"13:41:01","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Projects that yield great results often wouldn't seem promising to a rational person. Fortunately some people have a compensating irrationality: they're so interested in the project that they'll work on it for its own sake.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":51,"retweets_count":472,"likes_count":1821,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090605805290864646","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090381392050114600,"conversation_id":"1090381392050114560","created_at":1548802156000,"date":"2019-01-29","time":"22:49:16","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Young founders: though you may be able to tell whether your cofounder is a good programmer, it's less likely you can tell whether they can become a good engineering manager. You don't need to change anything you're doing now. Just remember this could become a problem later.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":51,"likes_count":581,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090381392050114560","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090375357314809900,"conversation_id":"1090375357314809861","created_at":1548800718000,"date":"2019-01-29","time":"22:25:18","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"6 yo's suggested solution to the political impasse in America: build a really short wall. Then Trump can save face by saying he built a wall, but it won't cost much or change anything.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":28,"retweets_count":34,"likes_count":395,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090375357314809861","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090192961244139500,"conversation_id":"1090192961244139520","created_at":1548757231000,"date":"2019-01-29","time":"10:20:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When your child is 5, the two of you are actors in a play. When he's 10, it's more often the case that he and his friends are the actors, and you are the stage crew. One tends to mess up this transition. My trick is to make a conscious effort to notice which times I'm stage crew.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":45,"likes_count":521,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090192961244139520","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090189607088635900,"conversation_id":"1090187419603865600","created_at":1548756431000,"date":"2019-01-29","time":"10:07:11","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When I do this, I don't edit what he writes. It's his story. I'm just transcribing it. So the most I'll do, if he mangles a sentence so badly that it's not even something he'd say, is repeat the first half out loud as I'm typing, and let him finish it again.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":9,"likes_count":297,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090189607088635904","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090187419603865600,"conversation_id":"1090187419603865600","created_at":1548755910000,"date":"2019-01-29","time":"09:58:30","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Good thing to do with a 6 yo: type stories they dictate. At that age, the physical act of writing is a bottleneck, so this can release a torrent of imagination. They love seeing their stories printed, like \"real\" stories they read in books. And it's a fun thing to do together.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":42,"retweets_count":174,"likes_count":2283,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090187419603865600","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090180727315071000,"conversation_id":"1090180727315070976","created_at":1548754314000,"date":"2019-01-29","time":"09:31:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The more successful the founder, the less they tend to know about fundraising technique. E.g. Zuck has only had to raise money a few times, and every time investors were already eager to give him money.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":22,"retweets_count":121,"likes_count":879,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090180727315070976","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1090177313109667800,"conversation_id":"1090177313109667840","created_at":1548753500000,"date":"2019-01-29","time":"09:18:20","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"If she was a candy maker, she'd care more about the shape of the candy than what it tasted like.\"\n\n– 6 yo on his teacher, who cares a lot about handwriting","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":36,"retweets_count":186,"likes_count":1488,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090177313109667840","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1089946999909240800,"conversation_id":"1089946999909240834","created_at":1548698589000,"date":"2019-01-28","time":"18:03:09","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"One of the children had to stay home from school because he got sick from licking a jam stain. That was his breakfast.\"\n\n– from dystopian story by 6 yo","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":71,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1089946999909240834","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1089830168363860000,"conversation_id":"1089830168363859969","created_at":1548670734000,"date":"2019-01-28","time":"10:18:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"It will suck if the lesson the Democrats take from losing to Trump is that they should copy his \"populist\" playbook. (a) It's evil, and (b) they're too earnest to do it well anyway. You can't beat Trump in a race to the bottom.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":27,"retweets_count":21,"likes_count":386,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1089830168363859969","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1089644034258284500,"conversation_id":"1089644034258284544","created_at":1548626357000,"date":"2019-01-27","time":"21:59:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Me: How did you like haggis?\n\nJessica: Don't tell me what's in it! If you tell me what's in it before I finish digesting it, I'll throw up.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":63,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1089644034258284544","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1089605963152265200,"conversation_id":"1089605963152265216","created_at":1548617280000,"date":"2019-01-27","time":"19:28:00","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"I'll tell you why I was so ticked off when I came out. I was warm and cozy in the womb.\"\n\n– 6 yo on his birth","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":243,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1089605963152265216","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1089229001758072800,"conversation_id":"1089228322264018944","created_at":1548527405000,"date":"2019-01-26","time":"18:30:05","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"So much so that I *almost* believe his claims that \"everyone\" is allowed to play Fortnite. But not quite.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":18,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":200,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1089229001758072838","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1089228700812492800,"conversation_id":"1089228322264018944","created_at":1548527333000,"date":"2019-01-26","time":"18:28:53","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I constantly have the feeling that my 10 year old son is more experienced at being a 10 year old than I am at being the parent of one.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":123,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1089228700812492800","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1089228322264019000,"conversation_id":"1089228322264018944","created_at":1548527243000,"date":"2019-01-26","time":"18:27:23","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Kids think their parents are experts, but in many respects they're complete noobs. If you're the oldest child, you're probably the first n-year old your parents have ever had to deal with.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":11,"likes_count":208,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1089228322264018944","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
