Paul Graham

RT @JamesSurowiecki: Cattle rancher Nick Nalder wants Trump to use tariffs to raise the price of foreign beef, so Nick can charge Americans…

RT @jasonfurman: I know many skeptics of prediction markets. I don't have an ideological faith in them (OK, maybe quasi ideological). But t…

RT @ryangrim: First a drone shoots a little boy. Then when people rush to help him, the full crowd is bombed from the air.

RT @mattyglesias: Let this chart de-radicalize you — negativity is better for engagement and social media company revenue but it’s bad for…

RT @garrytan: Codegen is having its “feel the AGI” moment, like Mickey Mouse in Fantasia making the brooms dance Codegen agents can now co…

If you zoom in, you can see a little Bede bump before the lights go out again. https://t.co/9e435Jzjk0

This graph by @Scientific_Bird shows very clearly the bite that the Dark Ages took out of scholarship, and how dramatically things took off afterward. https://t.co/IgPRwJ4loH

Naval is mistaken that you should focus on policies rather than people. Policies are just words, especially in an election year. It's easy to invent attractive-sounding policies. Whereas it's practically impossible for people to change their characters. You already know this.

RT @garrytan: Super proud of what @growing_daniel is making with Abel Police. Definitely has been my honor to work with him at YC. 25%…

RT @EdwardTufte: In my forthcoming book, NONFICTION: CONTENT, EVIDENCE, EFFICIENCY, TRUTH (current title): truth/falsity issues in medical…

RT @Noahpinion: Bloomberg is just quietly the best news source in the country, and people don't realize this because their marketing is tot…

RT @BretWeinstein: Please look into the case of Robert Robertson. I’ll provide links in the replies. But please don’t wait. He is scheduled…

A while ago I bought a Gunter rule (the predecessor of the slide rule) and a pair of dividers, and it's so pleasing to use. And the lack of any mechanism makes it seem like magic to people you show it to. You seem to have done nothing, and yet you've found that 420 / 17 ≈ 24.7.

RT @TVietor08: 🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Trump's former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis told Bob Woodward that Trump is a unique and menacing threat to…

RT @DaveBautista: . #LoveAmericaAgain #Vote https://t.co/yMHKp4DPXc

When I first saw this tweet I was horrified. Then I read the account name and I was relieved. This is from 1940. Then I remembered that the same things are happening right now, and I was horrified again.

12 yo was encouraged by a teacher to sign up for an essay competition. I told him I could teach him how to write good essays. He said he wasn't that interested in learning, because essays were boring. He didn't want to read them, so why would he want to learn how to write them?

When we lived in Silicon Valley, I asked an elementary school teacher what were the most important things parents didn't understand. This was number one.

RT @drewhouston: 1/ Today we’re introducing @Dropbox Dash for Business! Dash lets you search across all your work apps from one place, comb…

RT @garrytan: Asian Americans are always getting shafted in San Francisco Time to vote moderate, retake the school board and make our pres…

RT @YonahLieberman: The NYT just published a piece on how Israeli army routinely and systematically uses Palestinians as human shields in G…

RT @SteveStuWill: Anti-obesity drugs tied to lower risk of suicidal thoughts or attempts among young people - study https://t.co/Sqa9ZASi99

RT @AlecStapp: SpaceX is catching rocket boosters with chopsticks while the Space Launch System (SLS) is just a steady stream of subsidies…

Some people responding to this seem to assume that ChatGPT would need real-time access to other conversations to answer this question correctly. But obviously it wouldn't; training data would be sufficient to answer a question about something that changes so slowly.

I asked ChatGPT what other people ask it about. Sounds a lot like the sections of a newspaper. https://t.co/UIRukfKIxD

RT @AFFTMuseum: Celebrating the 77th anniversary of first supersonic flight! The Bell X-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.06, piloted by Captain…

RT @benpershing: A rising faction within the conservative legal movement is laying the groundwork for Donald Trump to appoint judges who pr…

RT @jon: The worst ball ever made. 38 panels. 20 pentagons, then 18 odd shaped silver panels filling in the void. An awful ball that sh…

12 yo had to write a review of Waiting for Godot for school. He asked if he could be candid about how boring it was. I told him to go ahead, but that the reaction would be unpredictable. Sometimes you get "How dare you?", sometimes you get "I secretly think so too."

RT @Kahlissee: 🇺🇸 American Doctor: "The bombing doesn't explain children being shot in the head. Every Day I was there, I saw children shot…

RT @maxseddon: Russia has expanded the capacity of its shadow fleet of oil tankers by almost 70 per cent year-on-year despite a recent crac…

You can even cheat a little. Frying onions is the high bit of the smell of dinner cooking, and that can be arranged in about one minute.

Something I told 12 yo: once you have a girlfriend or a wife living with you, they really appreciate it if they smell dinner cooking when they arrive home.

RT @Austen: What the SpaceX team grasped from the early days that basically no one else understood is that if price to launch changes by or…

RT @elonmusk: The tower has caught the rocket!! https://t.co/CPXsHJBdUh

"Is that Colonel Sanders?" — 12 yo on seeing a thumbnail on my desktop https://t.co/vptQkCvlWl

RT @cremieuxrecueil: Smarter people seem to get emotional about things much less quickly. This was consistent across several different stim…

RT @TimSweeneyEpic: Google using its dominant Windows browser market share anticompetitively to shore up its ad monopoly by blocking ad blo…

RT @levie: Two business messages coming out of the campaigns today. https://t.co/biboAGXKVw

RT @bhorowitz: “You can hate me now, but I won’t stop now.” - Nas It has come to my attention that Techcrunch is working on yet another pi…

RT @SteveStuWill: The IQ threshold hypothesis - the idea that, after IQ 120, additional IQ points don't translate into higher achievement -…

Brad Flora explains the rare, impressive thing that one startup did in their YC application. "It was very clearly written. The language was very plain and simple."

RT @IAmLogan07: Never forget what voting “third-party” gets you. https://t.co/boQD1CGYMj

RT @snowmaker: It's hard to overstate just how great the bull case for AI is. (from @DarioAmodei) https://t.co/kqLSFORhGs

RT @PeterHamby: TikTok admits in their own research: “compulsive usage correlates with a slew of negative mental health effects like loss…

RT @cafreiman: The middle class is shrinking because many people are getting too rich to remain middle class https://t.co/WahHcWBOHK

RT @Itsjoeco: Argentina is now implementing the best practices that the US stopped practicing 45 years ago. We should learn from them, and…

You just have to ask "What counts as progress for this company?" and then do that. There is always some answer. And experienced investors (which are the ones you want anyway) know that this is as much as they can expect.

The truth is that Demo Day investors can't reasonably expect you to have done more in 3 months than you could do in 3 months. Which is a tautology, but nonetheless something I constantly have to remind founders, and which they usually find very liberating.

Someone asked Jessica whether YC would be appropriate for them, since 3 months and $500k wouldn't be enough to finish their product and they thus wouldn't have anything shipped by Demo Day. She explained that YC funded Boom Supersonic.

RT @garrytan: Public service announcement: You should be aware of a pretty elaborate phishing scam using AI voice that claims to be Google…

RT @jesslivingston: I dream about doing this. I probably never will, but boy is it exciting to see someone talking openly about the kind of…

RT @NickKristof: It’s horrific first of all that children starve in Gaza as a result of the Israeli year-long invasion of Gaza. But it’s ev…

Cancel culture had one upside: There are several people I followed after they got cancelled, to show support for them, and these have turned out to be some of the most interesting people I follow. Not surprisingly, since thinking for themselves was what got them cancelled.

RT @SenatorRomney: We will pay $1 trillion in interest alone on our national debt this year. Think about that—$1 trillion! We could quadrup…

You've heard of DEI hires. Now the NSF brings you: DEI funds.

RT @AlecStapp: Occasional reminder that one of China's biggest fears is that someday the United States might actually fix its broken immigr…

RT @jk_rowling: When your conscience always aligns with what is best for your wallet and most boosts your social standing, you might want t…

The future of commercial aviation is happening now in the Mojave Desert.

RT @cremieuxrecueil: The benefits of caloric restriction for primate lifespans (including our own!) are probably overrated. We have two rh…

This is an extraordinary video.

RT @migueldeicaza: When friends asked me why I am so vocal. I said: I can afford to, and it is my duty to move the Overton window on the g…

RT @kane: San Francisco is a geographically blessed city w a $14B budget for 800k people. That's the highest in the entire USA other than D…

RT @levie: The least understood yet most important concept in the world is Jevons Paradox. When we make a technology more efficient, demand…

65 doctors, nurses, and paramedics told the New York Times what they saw in Gaza. What they saw was a pattern of children being shot in the head. https://t.co/DSsrkmA350

People seem to be gaming Polymarket at the moment, but the polls haven't changed. So unless for some reason the same poll numbers mean something different this week than they did last week, this presumably means there's an arbitrage opportunity...

RT @jayvanbavel: Unfollowing toxic social media influencers makes people less hostile! In 2 large field experiments, unfollowing a few ext…

RT @ill_Scholar: Distribution of Roman Coins Found. https://t.co/XC9X2E5jDR

RT @patrickc: We launched Stripe Issuing a few years ago. I wasn't sure how many use-cases there would be -- like, issuing a card is surely…

RT @emollick: A very small number of people ruin it for everyone else: the problem with unmoderated social media sites in a nutshell. https…

RT @scottlincicome: "How did 50K dockworkers strike at US ports with only 25K jobs?" https://t.co/EGtt5merWJ https://t.co/G2Ky2VUVM3

RT @billmckibben: For the first time ever recorded, October finds three hurricanes spinning simultaneously in the Atlantic. Hot new world h…

RT @infobeautiful: One of humanity's greatest achievements https://t.co/52zbPuNY2H https://t.co/KX82Wbw1JS

RT @jsrailton: CATASTROPHIC: Chinese hackers massively wiretapped 🇺🇸USA by compromising the interception portals mandated under US law. R…

RT @AymanMSNBC: "We had children that were hit with such high velocity bullet wounds, exactly where I would put my stethoscope...And then t…

RT @snowmaker: Most prompts will start around 60% accuracy on a battery of 100+ tests. You have to keep iterating on the prompt until it p…

RT @KenRoth: "Israeli forces have killed Palestinian journalist Hassan Hamad in an air strike on his home in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refuge…

RT @pickover: Mathematics. Creating three different ellipses. I found this animation here: https://t.co/t6AO2A4oRK https://t.co/xRRi3p34…

RT @bwertz: Few people appreciate how big Amazon's search advertising business has become https://t.co/VQgUZtrRK6