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Paul Graham is Wrong (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

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I really enjoyed that essay by Paul Graham. Paul Graham is an excellent writer and a very nice fellow. But when he said that thing that made me look bad, I just had to draw the line. For years, I’ve been doing something and telling people I’m doing it and then all of a sudden Paul Graham comes along and tells me it’s a bad idea. I think it’s time to question his assumptions. In his essay, Graham writes: Most people in this situation typically do this thing. But what if they did this other thing instead? This idea typically doesn’t occur to them for that reason. But if they did what I suggest, they’d be like a metaphor instead of a simile. Here’s where Graham really goes off the rails. What if we don’t want to do what he suggests? Graham never considers that possibility. He just assumes that he’s right. Once, in an interview, Graham was asked what he thought about this subject: Q: What do you think of people doing that thing? Well, you know, historically people really haven’t done a lot

Paul Graham is Wrong (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) Raw Thought by Aaron Swartz Paul Graham is Wrong I really enjoyed that essay by Paul Graham. Paul Graham is an excellent writer and a very nice fellow. But when he said that thing that made me look bad, I just had to draw the line. For years, I’ve been doing something and telling people I’m doing it and then all of a sudden Paul Graham comes along and tells me it’s a bad idea. I think it’s time to question his assumptions. In his essay, Graham writes: Most people in this situation typically do this thing. But what if the

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