Paul Graham / @paulg · Scour

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I was talking to a YC partner about how well all the hard tech startups are doing. He said investors are hot to fund them because they're afraid AI will eat all...

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I noticed a lot of people in the replies suggesting duckduckgo, and they're right. This is the place to do image searches. Look how much better it is.

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"People who get up at 4:30 in the morning go to bed at 8:30, and no one says anything about it."

And because exponential growth can produce crazy numbers, you need an extra dose of intellectual humility when dealing with it. It's never safe to make confiden...

Founders with technical backgrounds are often surprised by the results of such calculations too. Exponential growth is surprising. Indeed, that's probably as mu...

I don't think most politicians are incapable of understanding exponential growth. I think most could understand it if you gave them real world numbers like 15...

This is the weakness of autocratic governments. If you can figure out how to push the buttons of the (80 year old) leader, you own the whole country.

RT by @paulg: The new @pebble watch is an unbelievable product. Two days in and I've already made my perfect watchface. 30 day battery life too! @ericmigi

RT by @paulg: Russia was behind arson attacks targeting UK PM Keir Starmer, BBC reveals

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Google has started mixing ads right into the middle of image search results. It decreases search quality dramatically. Now when you search for images of a watch...

Is the proposed deal with Iran better or worse than the one they were offering before we attacked them? Did the US gain, or lose, by this war?

RT by @paulg: If you want to find a truly impactful idea, a good place to look is in the trash bin of history.

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Between 1982 and 2020, the number of the 100 richest Americans who got rich from inheritance decreased from 60 to 27. And yet on the left they think the mid 20t...

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Work on something you're as interested in as our cats are interested in this pigeon.

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It seems a mistake to call oneself a "non-technical founder." You're treating not knowing how to do something as a part of your identity. Surely it's better jus...

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How to Earn a Billion Dollars: https://paulgraham.com/earn.html

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In 1939 Auden wrote about the end of "a low dishonest decade." That phrase stuck in my head. Now I understand how he felt.

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RT by @paulg: Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said the campaign has reduced the traffic using the Novorossiya highway - a critica...

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So Occam's Razor says: at least some of the allegations about Trump in the Epstein files are in fact true.

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According to the recent NYT article, the person in the administration most against releasing the Epstein files is Trump, who'd have to resign if the allegations...

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