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I'm solidly in the camp that believes that if Graham wasn't rich no one would read this stuff or claim to admire it. He also should have run this through a spel
by f30e3dfed1c9 1y ago
I'm solidly in the camp that believes that if Graham wasn't rich no one would read this stuff or claim to admire it. He also should have run this through a spell checker.
- asadm 1y agoi don’t think he was rich when he first started? also other rich people also write stuff. nobody reads that shit.
- f30e3dfed1c9 1y agoA little unclear on what your point is. If it is that Graham is widely read in a way that other rich people aren't, then that's just wrong. Outside of the VC and startup scenes, he isn't read at all.
- jimnotgym 1y agoI also have the very strong suspicion that he was never poor
- jamesrcole 1y ago> He also should have run this through a spell checker. What's an example of a spelling mistake in it? I read it carefully and didn't notice any.
- f30e3dfed1c9 1y agoGonna leave that as an exercise to the reader. (You could run it through a spell checker, too.)
- jamesrcole 1y agoThere aren't any spelling errors. If you want to claim otherwise it would be easy for you to show examples.
- f30e3dfed1c9 1y agoBy now, it has been corrected. When I wrote my comment, "surprising" in end note [1] was misspelled "suprising."
- f30e3dfed1c9 1y agoStill visible at the internet archive, btw.
- Jun8 1y agoI think it’s true that the impactfullness of his essays has gone down in the recent years. However, note that a lot of people that gathered at HN in the early days came because of his early essays, such as Hackers and Painters. Me included.