Cancel culture had one upside: There are several people I followed after they got cancelled, to show support for them, and these have turned out to b… - Paul Graham

People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.

"If you're too inexperienced to start a startup, what you should do is start one. That's a way more efficient cure for inexperience than a normal job. In fact, getting a normal job may actually make you less able to start a startup, by turning you into a "tame animal" who thinks that he needs an office to work in and a product manager to tell him what software to write."

When people criticize an action on the grounds of the "optics," they're almost always full of shit. All they're really saying is "What you did looks bad." But if they phrased it that way, they'd have to answer the question "Was it actually bad, or not?"