In the US both the right and the left try to censor ideas they dislike. But their censorship takes place at opposite ends of the funnel: the right ma… - Paul Graham

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In the US both the right and the left try to censor ideas they dislike. But their censorship takes place at opposite ends of the funnel: the right mainly wants to limit what can be taught to kids, while the left wants to limit what can be said at all.

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About Paul Graham

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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Trying to think of startup ideas doesn't merely yield few good ideas; it yields bad ideas that sound plausible enough to fool you into working on them.
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Another reason people don't work on big projects is, ironically, fear of wasting time. What if they fail? Then all the time they spent on it will be wasted. (In fact it probably won't be, because work on hard projects almost always leads somewhere.)
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