The thing that was so striking about Paul Graham’s original essays was that they read almost as a kind of paranoid thriller. The world was out to dupe and ensla

The thing that was so striking about Paul Graham’s original essays was that they read almost as a kind of paranoid thriller. The world was out to dupe and enslave you, but he, Paul Graham, was — disinterestedly, dispassionately — going to get you out of here alive, armed only with Lisp, random facts about medieval Florence, and deep knowledge of Business Things. I laughed out loud at this part. Classic.