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Surprising that it took this long. PG's quotes page includes several by "Tara Ploughman", an anagram for "Not Paul Graham". When this was discovered, PG lamen

by noahlt 16y ago

Surprising that it took this long. PG's quotes page includes several by "Tara Ploughman", an anagram for "Not Paul Graham". When this was discovered, PG lamented the lack of a socially acceptable way to publish "single sentence essays". Twitter fills the gap nicely.

samstokes 16y ago
Nicholas Nassim Taleb (author of The Black Swan) uses Twitter for exactly that purpose: http://twitter.com/nntaleb http://twitter.com/nntaleb "(I use twitter to test philosophical aphorisms/epigrams)."
- tome 16y ago
  "This person has protected their tweets." Strange.
  - i4i 16y ago
    You have to be logged in to Twitter to see NNT's tweets. I think that has something to do with scraping/copyright and that his aphorisms are going to be published as a book.