If you were born after 1980 you'd find it hard to believe the authority that papers of record like the NYT and Washington Post used to have. Partly b… - Paul Graham

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If you were born after 1980 you'd find it hard to believe the authority that papers of record like the NYT and Washington Post used to have. Partly because there were few alternative sources of news, but also because they took their responsibility as papers of record seriously.

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Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.

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A restaurant can afford to serve the occasional burnt dinner. But in technology, you cook one thing and that's what everyone eats. So any difference between what people want and what you deliver is multiplied. You please or annoy customers wholesale. The closer you can get to what they want, the more wealth you generate.

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