{"id":1089197075764531200,"conversation_id":"1089194158961684480","created_at":1548519793000,"date":"2019-01-26","time":"16:23:13","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hypothesis: you can measure the health of a country by how they treat successful immigrants.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":45,"retweets_count":139,"likes_count":914,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1089197075764531200","retweet":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":1089194158961684500,"conversation_id":"1089194158961684480","created_at":1548519098000,"date":"2019-01-26","time":"16:11:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Disgusted by the Republicans' adventures in culture war, the Democrats now propose to give us... class war. Hard to say which the historical precedents are worse for. The 20th century was basically a hard-fought tie in that respect.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":107,"retweets_count":119,"likes_count":824,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1089194158961684480","retweet":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":1088375110258569200,"conversation_id":"1088375110258569217","created_at":1548323821000,"date":"2019-01-24","time":"09:57:01","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When you meet people who don't use Twitter, do you tell them they should try it out, or do you say \"You're so lucky. Don't start!\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":149,"retweets_count":65,"likes_count":723,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1088375110258569217","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1088015635194540000,"conversation_id":"1088013384631681025","created_at":1548238116000,"date":"2019-01-23","time":"10:08:36","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"To be fair to Ev and Biz and Jack, they didn't mean Twitter to be like it is now. (Except for retweet-with-comment. That was a Faustian bargain.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":6,"likes_count":120,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1088015635194540033","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1088013851298353200,"conversation_id":"1088013384631681025","created_at":1548237691000,"date":"2019-01-23","time":"10:01:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I would not advise founders to create such things. Not just because it's bad for the world, but also because you'll eventually lose all those users. Either something else will draw them away, or they'll develop social antibodies, as we did with smoking.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":11,"retweets_count":9,"likes_count":138,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1088013851298353152","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1088013384631681000,"conversation_id":"1088013384631681025","created_at":1548237579000,"date":"2019-01-23","time":"09:59:39","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One thing I've learned from Twitter that I didn't consciously realize before is that something can be simultaneously unpleasant and addictive. I was explaining this to someone, and the comparison that came to mind was checking a pimple.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":23,"retweets_count":51,"likes_count":528,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1088013384631681025","retweet":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":1087846383636439000,"conversation_id":"1087740748332756993","created_at":1548197763000,"date":"2019-01-22","time":"22:56:03","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Because most startups in any market fail.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":1,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1087846383636439040","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1087826639533285400,"conversation_id":"1087826639533285376","created_at":1548193056000,"date":"2019-01-22","time":"21:37:36","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The more it costs to sell you something, the more it will cost you to buy it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":34,"retweets_count":143,"likes_count":857,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1087826639533285376","retweet":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":1087690276934742000,"conversation_id":"1087690276934742016","created_at":1548160544000,"date":"2019-01-22","time":"12:35:44","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hello, I'm your father. You may know me from my greatest hits, including \"Where is your other shoe?\", \"Stop that before someone gets hurt,\" and \"Ok, you can have it if you promise to be good.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":22,"likes_count":457,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1087690276934742016","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1087686789366796300,"conversation_id":"1087686789366796290","created_at":1548159713000,"date":"2019-01-22","time":"12:21:53","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hello, I'm a Lisp hacker. You may know me from my greatest hits, including \"The parentheses are not an issue,\" \"It's not intrinsically for AI,\" and \"You just used a forum written in Lisp to post that comment saying nothing is written in Lisp.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":37,"likes_count":337,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1087686789366796290","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1087686703479959600,"conversation_id":"1087686703479959552","created_at":1548159693000,"date":"2019-01-22","time":"12:21:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hello, I'm a startup investor. You may know me from my greatest hits, including \"What does your company actually do?\", \"Do you know anyone who wants that?\", and \"I'm sorry, but I don't know anyone who wants to be your technical cofounder.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":49,"retweets_count":341,"likes_count":2550,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1087686703479959552","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1087686554615795700,"conversation_id":"1087686554615795713","created_at":1548159657000,"date":"2019-01-22","time":"12:20:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hello, I'm an essayist. You may know me from my greatest hits, including \"No, what I said was...,\" \"Can you give an example of a specific sentence or passage that's false?\" and \"If I meant that, I'd have written that.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":19,"likes_count":270,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1087686554615795713","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1087673740610203600,"conversation_id":"1087671453837864960","created_at":1548156602000,"date":"2019-01-22","time":"11:30:02","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Still more correct would be to say that liberals and conservatives want to be independent of the government in different ways. (E.g. being a slave to medical debt is not exactly independence.) But now the ideas are getting too long for a tweet.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":107,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1087673740610203648","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1087673147053215700,"conversation_id":"1087671453837864960","created_at":1548156460000,"date":"2019-01-22","time":"11:27:40","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Perhaps a correct version would be \"We want to be independent of the government. Cars, guns, and home-schooling increase our independence. But because liberals don't want as much to be independent of the government, they only see the downsides of these three things.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":105,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1087673147053215747","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1087282343260364800,"conversation_id":"1087282343260364800","created_at":1548063286000,"date":"2019-01-21","time":"09:34:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When you see a mob doing something, it should make you less likely to do it yourself, not more likely.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":128,"retweets_count":688,"likes_count":3497,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1087282343260364800","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1087124804522643500,"conversation_id":"1087124804522643456","created_at":1548025725000,"date":"2019-01-20","time":"23:08:45","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Breaking your code up into small functions makes it easier to understand. But not all big functions are equally hard to understand. A function whose body is one big conditional is as easy to understand as n smaller functions, if not easier.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":19,"retweets_count":68,"likes_count":496,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1087124804522643456","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1086912529404698600,"conversation_id":"1086911942680371200","created_at":1547975115000,"date":"2019-01-20","time":"09:05:15","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"The first time I wrote that, instead of \"They're ok, but\" I wrote \"They're funny and all, but.\" Shudder if you know what that means.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":39,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1086912529404698625","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1086911942680371200,"conversation_id":"1086911942680371200","created_at":1547974975000,"date":"2019-01-20","time":"09:02:55","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I wish my kids wanted me to read anything besides Wimpy Kid books at bedtime. They're ok, but I haven't been allowed to read anything else for the past several months, and at this point we have them all memorized.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":50,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":123,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1086911942680371200","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1086904154231136300,"conversation_id":"1086903828262371333","created_at":1547973118000,"date":"2019-01-20","time":"08:31:58","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Conflating necessary and sufficient conditions is the technique of the troll.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":21,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1086904154231136256","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1086900575277584400,"conversation_id":"1086894803986587649","created_at":1547972265000,"date":"2019-01-20","time":"08:17:45","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Depends on the kind of truth. I'm not going to tell a 5 year old that her dog is not in dog heaven. But if I see a common mistake startup founders make, for example, I need to warn them about it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":6,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1086900575277584384","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1086895258024243200,"conversation_id":"1086894803986587649","created_at":1547970997000,"date":"2019-01-20","time":"07:56:37","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I don't think you should aim for anger though. Aim for the truth, and don't worry if you get anger as a result.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":9,"retweets_count":33,"likes_count":436,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1086895258024243200","retweet":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":1086590476462055400,"conversation_id":"1086590476462055426","created_at":1547898332000,"date":"2019-01-19","time":"11:45:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you care about your readers, do this for them: find the actual beginning of whatever you just wrote, and cut everything before it. It's ok to rub your hands before getting down to work, but don't do it by writing introductory text.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":27,"retweets_count":76,"likes_count":664,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1086590476462055426","retweet":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":1082268906201456600,"conversation_id":"1082268906201456640","created_at":1546867989000,"date":"2019-01-07","time":"13:33:09","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"If you're a decent programmer working on a startup, take on as much technical debt as you can stand. (If you're a decent programmer, you won't be able to stand too much.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":42,"retweets_count":211,"likes_count":1180,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1082268906201456640","retweet":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":1075388450579324900,"conversation_id":"1075388450579324928","created_at":1545227561000,"date":"2018-12-19","time":"13:52:41","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"When I wrote Hacker News, I deliberately didn't make links open in new tabs. That seemed overreaching. But now so many sites do it that I'm often faked out when HN doesn't.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":28,"retweets_count":14,"likes_count":255,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1075388450579324928","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1075038261679145000,"conversation_id":"1075038261679144961","created_at":1545144069000,"date":"2018-12-18","time":"14:41:09","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Surprised to find (n=2 admittedly) that it's more motivating for kids to think of their distinctive qualities as mutations than as part of some family tradition.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":140,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1075038261679144961","retweet":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":1072115704441253900,"conversation_id":"1072115704441253888","created_at":1544447277000,"date":"2018-12-10","time":"13:07:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"A competition where 10% of kids win awards is ok, and one where 100% do is ok too (though it fools no kid over 4), but a competition where 80% of kids win awards is cruel.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":37,"retweets_count":110,"likes_count":1203,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1072115704441253888","retweet":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":1071457314614452200,"conversation_id":"1071457314614452224","created_at":1544290305000,"date":"2018-12-08","time":"17:31:45","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Whenever I teach little kids something, I'm always trying harder to teach the meta-lessons, like breaking down a problem into smaller parts, or that practice makes you better.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":23,"retweets_count":102,"likes_count":840,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1071457314614452224","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1071452435833602000,"conversation_id":"1071452435833602048","created_at":1544289141000,"date":"2018-12-08","time":"17:12:21","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"No one works harder for startups than Ron Conway. It's beyond dedicated and well into OCD.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":12,"likes_count":258,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1071452435833602048","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1071448112332501000,"conversation_id":"1071448112332500993","created_at":1544288111000,"date":"2018-12-08","time":"16:55:11","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"\"That was the old me. Now I'm more civilized.\"\n\n– 6 yo explaining why he won't misbehave this time","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":20,"retweets_count":79,"likes_count":1387,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1071448112332500993","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1070280461040132100,"conversation_id":"1070279846847242240","created_at":1544009721000,"date":"2018-12-05","time":"11:35:21","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Perhaps if you were extra-ambitious and lived super healthily, you could continue to work long hours after you were established. I'm not sure about that.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":11,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":178,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1070280461040132099","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1070279846847242200,"conversation_id":"1070279846847242240","created_at":1544009574000,"date":"2018-12-05","time":"11:32:54","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"A pattern of I've noticed in the careers of the ambitious: work long hours when you're getting started (when you both can and must), and 4 hours a day when you're established (when you can't and needn't).","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":23,"retweets_count":138,"likes_count":927,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1070279846847242240","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1070270368340983800,"conversation_id":"1070270368340983808","created_at":1544007315000,"date":"2018-12-05","time":"10:55:15","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I'm skeptical when people tell me something is massively undervalued, and they're not trying to take advantage of that fact. They're either unselfish or mistaken. And while unselfishness is common, mistakenness is even more common.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":24,"retweets_count":57,"likes_count":529,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1070270368340983808","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1069311190940205000,"conversation_id":"1069311190940205069","created_at":1543778629000,"date":"2018-12-02","time":"19:23:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Flight delayed by 2 hours. Spent the time doing yoga in a corner of the terminal. Went to the gate feeling I'd beaten the system. Learned flight is delayed by a further 2 hours. I think I'll just go get a beer.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":80,"retweets_count":174,"likes_count":4264,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1069311190940205069","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1069056481776025600,"conversation_id":"1069056481776025600","created_at":1543717902000,"date":"2018-12-02","time":"02:31:42","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I was going to write that I'm very impressed by what Harvard has done to Holyoke Center, but does that get one banned now?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":35,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1069056481776025600","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1069052928202293200,"conversation_id":"1069052928202293248","created_at":1543717054000,"date":"2018-12-02","time":"02:17:34","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Met someone who'd worked out of a government-created startup incubator consisting of office space. Imitated the way the inevitable VIPs would walk through it on the inevitable tours, with their hands clasped behind their backs. \"How did you know?\" he asked, astonished.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":16,"retweets_count":29,"likes_count":310,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1069052928202293248","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1068803466116677600,"conversation_id":"1068801561797648385","created_at":1543657578000,"date":"2018-12-01","time":"09:46:18","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Companies like Apple and Facebook won't be bold or flexible enough to lead this. It will be a case of \"if the people lead, the leaders will follow.\" Probably yielding some new leaders in the process.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":22,"likes_count":181,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1068803466116677633","retweet":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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