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I've always had an entreprenurial / always-doing-something spirit, but I do owe my decision to get the hell out of a cube to Paul Graham's essays. He's not a

• jgrahamc 19y ago
  I've been lucky enough to get to know Paul a little. He invited me to take part in the first MIT Spam Conference in 2003 and I've seen him on and off since then. I don't think hero worship is appropriate, but I think Paul should be celebrated for a few things: sunny personality, good writing, openness, curiosity. There are a lot of people in the computer industry with difficult personalities, who can't communicate in writing, who are fixated on a particular technology. Paul isn't like that. Those things make him worth looking up to.