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> People, like matter, reveal their nature under extreme conditions. An excellent nugget of wisdom from Paul Graham. That was worth the read by itself.
by TimTheTinker 6y ago
> People, like matter, reveal their nature under extreme conditions.
An excellent nugget of wisdom from Paul Graham. That was worth the read by itself.
- mdoms 6y agoIt's trite nonsense. It doesn't even make sense.
- theplague42 6y agoWhat wisdom, exactly? This is neither an original thought nor a particularly good phrasing.
- randomsearch 6y agoSeems a good insight to me, it's a generalisation of "if you want to know your real relationship with a person, wait until your interests are opposed and see how they act"
- sjg007 6y agoWhy opposed and not simply stressed? Anyway if you need to wait until the end of the world to determine a man's character then you need to take a couple of psychology courses.
- Plestor 6y agoSeems like "laminar flow" would be a possible explanation here... Fluid flow near surfaces becomes a near zero vector.