Your moral principles and your economic interests won't always be aligned. What you do when they're not is a test of character. - Paul Graham

The pitch of populist demagogues is always "The country is going to hell, and only I can save it." So one of the best ways to undermine them is to publish evidence that things are getting better, not worse.

And you had better have a convincing explanation of why your technology would be hard to duplicate. Otherwise as soon as some big company becomes aware of it, they’ll make their own, and with their brand name, capital, and distribution clout, they’ll take away your market overnight. You’d be like guerillas caught in the open field by regular army forces.

If you can’t find ten Lisp hackers, then your company is probably based in the wrong city for developing software