Paul Graham

It was smart of them to name a number, because now people won't rest till they know the names of all 6.

"Next Gen" is the Tri-State Area of product names.

Interesting grammatical ambiguity. I'm 99 percent sure I know the correct interpretation, but not 100. https://t.co/6OfsI1lFFe

Last night I was feeling discontented because the last part of the essay I'm writing felt off. Jessica said "You'll worry about it and then you'll wake up in the morning and fix it." This seemed ra...

"DEI fanfiction" is so good.

Apparently unions are proposing a new tax on SF companies whose CEOs are paid too much more than their median SF-based employees. I bet you can immediately think of 3 ways companies could avoid it ...

It's actually reassuring to know that there is *some* threshold below which he won't sink, even if it's a very low one.

Where we live it has rained every day so far in 2026.

It's truly impressive how Austen has powered past all the haters. I've never seen a company with such dedicated haters. For some it became an obsession verging on mental illness. A few were even em...

The dog likes it so much when I spill food on the floor when I'm cooking that I usually spill a little on purpose. So now I can't cook without constantly tripping over the dog.

Why kids at British schools are usually called by their last name: 17 yo was in a five-a-side football match, and all five boys on the team had the same first name.

Our dog, at right, with some of his colleagues. https://t.co/kbjGcvsWFe

I struck up a conversation with the woman sitting next to me at lunch. She turned out to be 93. It's not often you can compliment someone by saying they look 80.

Elon should call the combined company " X".

PSA: It's 1950s, not 1950's. The apostrophe is for missing letters, and there are no missing letters here. (So what's the missing letter in the possessive? An e that became silent in speech in Ch...

Don't believe what xenophobes tell you: financially America is net ahead on immigrants. They're entitled to dislike people from certain countries if they want to (and are willing to admit that's wh...

Someone asked about tricks for meeting eminent people. I said the best plan is just to do really good work. Then you'll tend to meet them organically. In the worst case you'll see one whenever you ...

You can tell how bad things got in the 9th century from how few things remain that were made then.

I just saw Marty Supreme. That must be the most non-stop movie I've ever seen. They made every frame count.

...then they fight you, then you win.