C.<p>This column (worth a read):<br><a href="https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/paul-graham-and-the-cult-of-the-founder?r=eeyg&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">davekarpf.substack.com/p/paul-</span><span class="invisible">graham-and-the-cult-of-the-founder?r=eeyg&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true</span></a></p><p>... reminded me of how much I dislike Paul Graham. Not personally; I've never met him. I read a bit of him online way back when, and then bought his book "Hackers &amp; Painters", which was a collection of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/essays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essays</span></a> that everyone was fawning over.</p><p>It struck me as an enormous pile of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/obvious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obvious</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/generalities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>generalities</span></a> in which he spent WAY too much time trying to sound <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Serious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Serious</span></a> and <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Important" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Important</span></a> and that they were Novel Ideas. It's <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/garbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>garbage</span></a>.</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PaulGraham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulGraham</span></a></p>