To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing thi… - Paul Graham

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To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.

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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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