This isn’t a great conclusion from Graham’s post. If you’re really trying to make this connection, then employers are incentivized to hire people with children

This isn’t a great conclusion from Graham’s post. If you’re really trying to make this connection, then employers are incentivized to hire people with children since you can more accurately gauge their aspirations, work habits, performance during an interview after they’ve already had the child-having transformation. On the other hand, a childless interviewee may change drastically after having children. In the end, I like Paul Graham’s introspection but assuming employers would see this as some kind of direction to prefer childless candidates over childbearing ones is far fetched