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I did not go to MIT but spent my entire career in Boston startups and tech. It is impossible to overstate how influential CSAIL was (and is?) in addition to it sounding here like a…

It's a pretty good definition if for some reason you think Paul Graham is in a position to decide what's "performative".

You don't suppose people are choosing to live elsewhere for any "political" reasons do you?

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Twitter sucks because it's commercial. Threads sucks because it's commercial. Bluesky will suck because it's commercial. If only there was a pattern we could detect. Learn about th…

This piece teaches me almost nothing about Vadim but shows me a ton about the environment he worked in. Someone built that culture, who are they? Why did they do it? Was Vadim comp…

Well the tech industry is certainly in no position to help or pass judgement, our lack of diversity is a industy-wide disgrace.

“The vehicle is stable near or at our intended landing site,” Steve Altemus, the chief executive of Intuitive Machines said during a NASA news conference on Friday. “We do have com…

The spacecraft has an ad prominently displayed on itself, it's depressing. We will never reproduce the experience of 10 year old me watching the moon landing with my dad. It's all …

In the startup world and in much of the tech corporate world in practice predictability is valued above all else. It's because investors, perhaps reasonably, value and therefore de…

The first two machines I touched were a CDC 6400 and DEC 20 at Lehigh University in the 70s. Both - while built by large teams - "felt" like they were designed by a single person, …

It's the name of an institution, not just a person.

The meritocracy myth is s fundamental tenet of tech and Silicon Valley culture.

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The bit about PG and Altman parting ways is interesting I wonder if anyone wants to share more :).

"Middle management" gets a bad rap I think, I moved from big company middle management positions to startup founding teams and back my entire career. More senior managers in big co…

Just the questions show you may be on the right path. I'd look for emotional blocks inhibiting the implementation/coding work. In my aged experience virtually all procrastination i…

Market share for what? Inflicting ads on people? Fortunately the W3C does not care (directly) about market share.

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"If you were to heed Timnit’s warnings you would have to significantly change the business and the structure of these companies. If you heed Geoff’s warnings, you sit around a tabl…

It would be nice to see Paul write more about the privileges he has enjoyed.