Paul Graham / @paulg · Scour

RT by @paulg: YC put on an amazing Sales Conference for the Spring batch today.

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RT by @paulg: Mehdi Hasan: You murdered 300 people last week including a baby at her father's funeral

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RT by @paulg: “The Supreme Court banned race discrimination in college admissions and Asian acceptance rates increased. I have no idea how these two might be re...

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Exploring random topics, driven by your own curiosity, is the most valuable form of learning. This is where the real outlier ideas come from. Whereas running a ...

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Don't start a startup in high school. What if it works? You'll lose the opportunity you'd otherwise have to explore random, interesting ideas, driven only by cu...

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"It sounds convincing because it’s partly right, but... it’s misleading in exactly the way these Google summaries usually are...."

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A British founder I funded is doing everything right, but she doesn't realize it. She lives in the country and doesn't know any other founders, so she's never s...

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RT by @paulg: Private-sector unionization in the US was a temporary mid-20th century phenomenon:

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TIL the USSR concealed a bug in a hand-carved Great Seal given as a "gift" in 1945 to the US ambassador that was only discovered by accident in 1951. The bug wa...

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RT by @paulg: We conducted cyber evaluations of Claude Mythos Preview and found that it is the first model to complete an AISI cyber range end-to-end. 🧵

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Looking at images upside down is a good way to see mistakes. Hundreds of people a day must look at this Ingres portrait in the Frick Collection without noticing...

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RT by @paulg: 12th April 2023

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RT by @paulg: I've heard great things about the Swedish startup scene. I'm excited to go see it in person!

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For Jessica a significant part of the attraction of staying in a hotel is simply having someone else to cook the amount of food two teenage boys consume.

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How far gone I am. I see this and I think "Ooh, 561."

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RT by @paulg: I love this story.

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Almost 6 years ago:

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How can you empathize with founders if you don't build stuff yourself?

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200th dive. Now I'm in the danger zone, where I feel like I know what I'm doing, but actually don't.

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Later stage investors always grumble about increasing valuations. But there is some basis in reality for it: companies do grow faster now.

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