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What would you have said about PG's writing before he had started YC, and was still working on ViaWeb? Imagine PG writing back then with the same level of intro
by todayiamme 15y ago
What would you have said about PG's writing before he had started YC, and was still working on ViaWeb? Imagine PG writing back then with the same level of introspective insight, would you have shot him down too?
I think that if you look beyond the messenger, you will see a message worth reading, irrespective of who has delivered it.
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- onan_barbarian 15y agoYou're assuming the pg's awesomeness in everything he writes is a given. Like any smart, opinionated person who writes on a wide variety of topics, pg ranges between insights that make me think "damn, I wish I had thought of that" to "what is this I don't even". It turns out that pg isn't a Philosopher King on every topic. In any case the point is moot. The original post in question isn't that profound (introspective insight is in rather short supply) and most of the evidence mustered in support of it comes from experiences where the guy is just telling us how awesome something that he did was. It could well be that he should have handled the situation by reading both disputants the riot act and breaking up the meeting; we have no evidence beyond his say-so. Maybe this clever-clever "I am the Silent One" stuff just wasted vast amounts of everyone's time...