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When I'm stuck on a technical problem, I start writing a grumpy email to the support-PoC. I anticipate their questions and find the answers and add them into the email. This is repeated as necessary. It's not unusual then that at some point the answer magically drops into my lap and the grumpy email is tossed into the gripe-recycler.
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So you are under the belief that the written output of one man born in 1564 was of greater quantity than all “good” writing prior to his time? Are you sure you thought this through?
no i am not under the belief of anything other than mentioning PG in a slightly bad light will get me downvotes or a ban on this platform. > So you are under the belief that the written output of one man born in 1564 was of greater quantity than all “good” writing prior to his time? Are you sure you thought this through? This is not the point i was trying to make.
What about socrates, epictete etc ? Who rejected the very idea of writing in favor of oral teaching. They seemed to be pretty good at thinking.
Beware the writing excess Paul
Reading doesn’t have to be back to back books or papers. Blogs, tutorials, comments also count!
"You can't think well without writing well" What about socrates, epictete etc ? Who rejected the very idea of writing in favor of oral teaching. They seemed to be pretty good at thinking. Beware the writing excess Paul
Paul Graham is a venture capitalist in a hyper-connected society, where pretty much everyone can read and write.
When these ancient philosophers preferred oral exchanges over text based communication you've to realize that text wasn't quiet as easily produced and consumed in their society and what they were likely going for was a fluid exchange of ideas, which was pretty hard to do with written words in that age.
Citations are needed for such bold claims if PG wants to be persuasive.
Does HackerNews count as reading?