Part of what I once said about why Def Leppard songs were meaningful to me: A group of young men singing about love who also stood by their talented but now se

Part of what I once said about why Def Leppard songs were meaningful to me: A group of young men singing about love who also stood by their talented but now severely handicapped band member after he lost an arm is something that spoke to my soul. To me, these people had to know something more than pretty words. There had to be something deeper in their songs than just "sex, drugs and rock and roll." https://genevievefiles.blogspot.com/2020/04/anger-management.html https://genevievefiles.blogspot.com/2020/04/anger-management... Words never stand completely on their own. What they mean to people is shaped by context, history and reputation. Hacker News wasn't always a space with 5 million unique visitors per month who mostly barely know each other. When I originally joined in 2009, it had a sense of community. I never got to be one of the "insiders" in that community. I was a visitor looking in from the outside. But it did exist and many of those people still come here, though their presence isn't obvious. I don't think you can tell who pg's friends are by who says what on Hacker News. I've always respected the man, though he and I were never friends. I respected him because of how he comported himself here when he was in my mind just a moderator for a forum that I participated on, before he was big time famous and big time wealthy, when his wealth was measured in words starting with M, not B. I don't read every single thing he writes and I never have. But I certainly take his words seriously when I do sometimes read them. He has a PhD and he suggested to his girlfriend that the two of them should start a company together. That company is, of course, YC. I feel like it gets little press as a "pro diversity" company, but it's a big company with a woman founder and that's true because of Paul Graham. It was not Jessica Livingston who came up with the idea. It's sort of a stealth diversity thing and I generally don't say too much about that because I think that's the best way to do diversity and I don't want to ruin it by calling a lot of attention to it. But we've had a pandemic all year and the entire world is cranky as all hell -- me included -- and it's just rubbing me the wrong way that people are so desperate to find a dog to kick these days. So I feel a need to give a bit of pushback here lately.