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# ![@paulg Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::183749519.png) @paulg Paul Graham

Paul Graham, a prominent entrepreneur and investor, has been sharing his insights on various topics, including startups, economics, and artificial intelligence. He recently emphasized the importance of founders being mindful of their company's growth, suggesting that staying small for as long as possible can be beneficial. Graham also discussed the potential of AI in coding, citing its ability to improve efficiency, and touched on other topics such as the challenges of measuring performance in organizations.

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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::183749519/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"One of the biggest disconnects between school and reality: schools give you credit for effort but customers don't. Young founders often get whiplash from this transition at YC. After XX years of getting credit for effort it suddenly stops"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1085944346317332480) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2019-01-17T16:58Z 2.1M followers, 6485 engagements


"@elonmusk Interesting point but an example might make it clearer. Can you think of a prominent person who's currently wasting his talents in software when he could be working on manufacturing and heavy industries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1645107536616357888) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2023-04-09T16:52Z 2.1M followers, 1.7M engagements


"I was talking to the founder of a very successful startup and he said the best time was in the first few years when they were just a handful of smart people trying to solve hard problems and no one expected anything of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1822403663433990503) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2024-08-10T22:44Z 2.1M followers, 306.9K engagements


"The problem with starting a startup to make something for schools is that startups have to begin by selling to early adopters and schools aren't early adopters of anything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1875991091419533327) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-01-05T19:41Z 2.1M followers, 414.7K engagements


"There will definitely be *some* founders who are motivated by the prospect of a price advantage. But they'll mostly be like the founders who start companies to take advantage of government set-asides. Those companies don't grow into Googles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1909278603730194608) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-04-07T16:14Z 2.1M followers, 46.6K engagements


"Something I explained to XX yo: There is no intrinsically fair price for any commodity just the market price. Most people have no problem understanding that. Until the commodity is labor. Then suddenly it becomes hard to understand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1924762783893106974) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-05-20T09:43Z 2.1M followers, 1.3M engagements


"Bluesky's usage graph. The pattern here is bad. Spikes when a bunch of new people show up followed by declines when the new arrivals are disappointed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1930194301129994394) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-06-04T09:25Z 2.1M followers, 1.2M engagements


"@neuralvarez Most startups even if they succeed will have market caps in the billions or tens of billions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1952514020172616065) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-08-04T23:36Z 2.1M followers, 59.3K engagements


"Vibe coding is here to stay. I'd been worried it might be a fad but I talked to the founder of an infrastructure company who's in a position to see how well vibe-coded apps are doing and he said a lot of them are making money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1956458026652799173) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-08-15T20:48Z 2.1M followers, 1.1M engagements


"People who think they no longer depend on trusting experts only survive because they're mistaken. Every time you get on a plane you trust experts implicitly about a million questions you're not even aware of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1962731431534235773) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-09-02T04:16Z 2.1M followers, 987.2K engagements


"@sama I've noticed more and more in my replies. And not just from fake accounts run by groups and countries that want to influence public opinion. There also seem to be a lot of individual would-be influencers using AI-generated replies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1963368222926983190) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-09-03T22:27Z 2.1M followers, 148.2K engagements


"There's another problem unconsciously hidden in the illustration. Notice the American is wearing a t-shirt and trainers and the European is wearing a suit. (Obviously it's not the clothes per se so much as the extra formality they represent.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1975122384882675974) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-06T08:54Z 2.1M followers, 156.8K engagements


"One reason Replit's revenue is growing so fast is that they're in the equivalent of a high-performance climb. They weren't just sitting around doing nothing during the preceding years of slower growth. They were building the stuff that's helping them grow fast now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1975599230061584619) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-07T16:28Z 2.1M followers, 151.3K engagements


"Why good comedians tend to be short"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976196883581432065) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-09T08:03Z 2.1M followers, 282.6K engagements


"@Siphiwe_sips1 @atlasx100 X. It's showing off. X. You'd always be worrying about it getting scratched. X. It's a wasting asset so you can't even rationalize it as diversification"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976210692295610830) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-09T08:58Z 2.1M followers, 23.7K engagements


"@ahistoryinart Wow ok I should have known you'd have the story right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976585416695574971) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T09:47Z 2.1M followers, 1770 engagements


"@mohammadonx Rice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976702238447075720) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T17:31Z 2.1M followers, 35K engagements


"@dn_osama_rabee Someone should make a documentary about these"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976703587754410044) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T17:37Z 2.1M followers, 24.6K engagements


"Very briefly I got a version of GMail where one email in my inbox *had* to be selected even if there wasn't one I wanted to focus on. It was unbearably annoying. Then the feature just disappeared. Anyone else see it Do I dare to hope it's gone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976709159094505864) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T17:59Z 2.1M followers, 62.2K engagements


"Google search autocomplete presents an alarming picture of its users"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976709769156345892) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T18:01Z 2.1M followers, 77.3K engagements


"The most striking thing I've noticed so far was the degree to which the atomic theory was an act of faith for Dalton at first. Almost all his numbers were wrong but he was convinced the basic theory was right because it was so elegant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976765547695292618) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T21:43Z 2.1M followers, 48.5K engagements


"Another very surprising thing I noticed is that even as late as 1830 chemists were still undecided about whether to treat oxygen or hydrogen as the unit of atomic weight. Thomson was in the oxygen camp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976766038348857618) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T21:45Z 2.1M followers, 44K engagements


"@kavak55112504 Yes but I prefer The Copernican Revolution. SOSR is basically a more abstract version of it but his point is clear enough in the earlier book"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976768571696173313) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T21:55Z 2.1M followers, XXX engagements


"@robmcgeheephd One likely candidate would be object-oriented programming but I'm definitely not in that camp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976770013265813805) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T22:01Z 2.1M followers, XXX engagements


"@LuisAndLearn How could they have had an insight that nobody knew then They were the people knowing things then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976770403369652700) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T22:02Z 2.1M followers, 1328 engagements


"@migueldeicaza What is a brokerage charge @typesfast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976773872528875599) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T22:16Z 2.1M followers, 27.7K engagements


"@cremieuxrecueil Does the supplier donate so much that it amounts to a dollar out of the retail price"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976774497849295131) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T22:19Z 2.1M followers, 14.3K engagements


"@bscholl It may be a necessary condition but it's not a sufficient one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976777770371105118) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T22:32Z 2.1M followers, 17.1K engagements


"@ilyasu Could be an artifact of getting older. Opportunity costs actually do increase as you get older and the people around you age as you do so you'd expect to see that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976778354427937209) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T22:34Z 2.1M followers, 6504 engagements


"@TheOnlyDSC These aren't police and you knew that when you posted this. That's why you describe them using the weirdly vague phrase "UK officers." You know you're being dishonest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976807779861250229) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-11T00:31Z 2.1M followers, 68.5K engagements


"@mnmcsofgp @thestonechat @TheOnlyDSC When was the last time you visited the UK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976948841556685253) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-11T09:51Z 2.1M followers, 2074 engagements


"@ReichlinMelnick In this as in many other things Trump's model of the world is how things were in the 1980s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976950838750068881) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-11T09:59Z 2.1M followers, 8786 engagements


"@bscholl @boomaero It was my older son's first investment at age 7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976951873258373161) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-11T10:03Z 2.1M followers, 12.7K engagements


"Hard to say what's more striking the amateurishness or the brutality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977032331816058951) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-11T15:23Z 2.1M followers, 223.3K engagements


"@tourcontinues I'm not talking about people bullying my kids. We never got much of that. Just bullies in general"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977033015160455176) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-11T15:26Z 2.1M followers, 8534 engagements


"@bwinterrose That implies swimsuit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977127054778024252) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-11T21:39Z 2.1M followers, 15.6K engagements


"@nikitabier It was called Arpanet then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977279438573248644) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-12T07:45Z 2.1M followers, 54.1K engagements


"@johnjhorton In 6th grade I was the shortest boy. Only one kid in my year (Annette Wilson) was shorter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977406268282392801) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-12T16:09Z 2.1M followers, 1809 engagements


"@arvidkahl That's not true unless you're defining "target customer" in a way that makes your statement a tautology. I've definitely been discouraged from buying things by this trick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977495303424238038) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-12T22:03Z 2.1M followers, 21.2K engagements


"@CcibChris I noticed this as we were moving to England"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977725204760559800) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T13:16Z 2.1M followers, 10.7K engagements


"@chrisbarber I once backed a friend to do this for homelessness. Unfortunately she discovered that approximately everyone living on the street is insane or an addict or both"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977741110425395525) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T14:20Z 2.1M followers, 74.3K engagements


"@glbaumann They're both delicious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977741947310637116) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T14:23Z 2.1M followers, 13.5K engagements


"@Itsjoeco I'm glad though because "monstrance" is one of my favorite words and I never thought I'd see it in the wild"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977744243138441277) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T14:32Z 2.1M followers, 5233 engagements


"@YIMBYLAND You can but you don't want to because you're waking up at 5:00 am when the baby does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977746464911528049) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T14:41Z 2.1M followers, 13K engagements


"@itsolelehmann What is a non-AI social network How can you prevent people from using AIs to generate what they post"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977757978213167500) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T15:27Z 2.1M followers, 114.6K engagements


"@doubleape @itsolelehmann Till it's common to have AI apps running in glasses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977791393197068339) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T17:39Z 2.1M followers, 5786 engagements


"@danielnjoo @itsolelehmann Underrated reply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977791459664232667) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T17:40Z 2.1M followers, 5712 engagements


"@Hasen_Judi Most if not all good startup ideas seem lame at first"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978414368032170254) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-15T10:55Z 2.1M followers, 20.3K engagements


"@AndrewArruda Thanks Andrew"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978426031707934870) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-15T11:41Z 2.1M followers, 5835 engagements


"@whyvert Yes @MaxCRoser and his team probably have the best overall understanding of how things are going in the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978514555731947561) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-15T17:33Z 2.1M followers, 3326 engagements


"@JustinMemphis42 That is a very important point. Social media and populist demagogues have the same incentives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978515872122630251) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-15T17:38Z 2.1M followers, 1377 engagements


"@MBentivoglio The best way to find a cofounder is to work on projects with other people. This naturally happens at universities which is why so many people find cofounders there though Apple and Microsoft's cofounders started working on projects together in high school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978778296193056771) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-16T11:01Z 2.1M followers, 9615 engagements


"@johnjhorton Interesting I see they have a lot more detail. I wonder if some economists are secretly happy about the tariffs even though they all know they're a dumb policy because they generate such a huge amount of data as they damage the economy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978795411352809535) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-16T12:09Z 2.1M followers, 12.7K engagements


"@ShaneAParrish It's a mistake even to frame the problem as bringing "back" American industry. The real problem is simply to increase economic growth and chances are the best way to do that is by focusing on growing new industries rather than repairing old ones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978795799837372569) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-16T12:10Z 2.1M followers, 18.5K engagements


"@Austen The AI Turnaround"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978842583682937112) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-16T15:16Z 2.1M followers, 7145 engagements


"@eastdakota @rmhrisk It's helpful if they have different skills but not necessary. The most important way to be different is simply being a different person"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979093236565020688) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T07:52Z 2.1M followers, 3606 engagements


"@SaintLewis44 Very much so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979202101726023884) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T15:05Z 2.1M followers, 3961 engagements


"@rickasaurus I would not call it a Lisp. The source not consisting of lists is disqualifying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979208676855386519) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T15:31Z 2.1M followers, 6353 engagements


"@rburton @garrytan @ycombinator It would be weird if we weren't since we were the first instance of the current model"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979470851486699920) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T08:53Z 2.1M followers, 12.8K engagements


"@thisisgrantlee Though you don't cite a source this data seems to be from that 2018 paper by Azoulay et al. Their methodology for selecting "startups" is a joke. Read the paper and see for yourself:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979475252460523657) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T09:10Z 2.1M followers, 57.4K engagements


"@thisisgrantlee Anyone who wants to can do a better study for themselves in half an hour. Walk down the Nasdaq in order of market cap and make a weighted average of the founders' ages. Since there's a power law distribution the answer won't change after the first XX companies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979475799200673962) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T09:13Z 2.1M followers, 55.3K engagements


"@JoelEngardio Thank you for telling her story. I have my mother's recipes too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979479327755411762) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T09:27Z 2.1M followers, 7476 engagements


"@gauravvohra1 All founders do including the most successful. Imagine how few people cared about Apple or Microsoft when they launched and yet the founders (rightly) thought they were working on something momentous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979480143501332663) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T09:30Z 2.1M followers, 11.9K engagements


"@harjtaggar Did the easy to discover ideas yield successful startups"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979559162033188896) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T14:44Z 2.1M followers, 2451 engagements


"Bold leadership from Alexandr Wang. "Hiring on merit will be a permanent policy at Scale.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1801488608353808822) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2024-06-14T05:35Z 2.1M followers, 384.9K engagements


"Don't drop out of college to start or work for a startup. There will be other (and probably better) startup opportunities but you can't get your college years back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1948723683574333536) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-07-25T12:35Z 2.1M followers, 1.9M engagements


"I just talked to a startup whose market cap if they succeed will be so large that we didn't even try to estimate it. It would just sound like fiction to investors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1952467330405204350) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-08-04T20:31Z 2.1M followers, 1.7M engagements


"I met a founder today who said he writes 10000 lines of code a day now thanks to AI. This is probably the limit case. He's a hotshot programmer he knows AI tools very well and he's talking about a XX hour day. But he's not naive. This is not 10000 lines of bug-filled crap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1953289830982664236) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-08-07T02:59Z 2.1M followers, 2.5M engagements


"Something I just told a founder: Stay as small as you can for as long as you can. People who come to visit your office should always be surprised that such an important company has so few employees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1962736318049288199) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-09-02T04:36Z 2.1M followers, 698.4K engagements


"Organizations that can't measure performance end up measuring performativeness instead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1973617644495577459) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-02T05:14Z 2.1M followers, 415.3K engagements


"A spectacular example of Orwellian doublespeak from the UK Home Secretary: "Just because you have a freedom doesnt mean you have to use it at every moment of every day." In fact the ability do something whenever you want is practically the definition of a freedom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1974899202569515321) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-05T18:07Z 2.1M followers, 300.5K engagements


"Later we'll find it hard to believe that masked thugs were dragging people off the street at gunpoint. At least I hope we will since the other alternative would be to decline into the kind of country where that's normal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1975531833652846641) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-07T12:01Z 2.1M followers, 2.7M engagements


"He's right. Except in a few edge cases everything good (health education rule of law tolerance) is downstream of economic growth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1975560652925321653) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-07T13:55Z 2.1M followers, 193.1K engagements


"I donated. I don't agree with all his positions but Massie is a man of principle and that is what we need more of right now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1975823402515808547) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-08T07:19Z 2.1M followers, 419K engagements


"Next to my mouse I keep its ancient ancestor this massive Paleolithic flint handaxe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1975831028020486387) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-08T07:50Z 2.1M followers, 154.2K engagements


"@atlasx100 I wouldn't spend that on a car now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976193659336036452) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-09T07:50Z 2.1M followers, 340.4K engagements


"The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976195168668876840) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-09T07:56Z 2.1M followers, 504.5K engagements


"Jessica's on the train home. What will she want for dinner Black beans I decided. So I made black beans. Then I checked my email and found a message from Jessica saying she'll be home soon and would I make black beans for dinner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976701177065517321) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T17:27Z 2.1M followers, 520.1K engagements


"@abhishekray07 I don't carry a phone unless I'm going somewhere to meet someone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976704083554656684) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T17:39Z 2.1M followers, 47.2K engagements


"I'm reading Thomson's History of Chemistry written in 1830 and it's all the more interesting because they're still just beginning to figure things out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976764683416985670) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T21:40Z 2.1M followers, 90.2K engagements


"A rare case where you don't want the logo to be too legible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976787841427685493) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T23:12Z 2.1M followers, 76.6K engagements


"Something that's obvious in retrospect but I only noticed after years as a primary school parent: kids who are bullies or assholes tend to have parents who are too and this often makes it hard for the administrators to keep a lid on bad behavior"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976995566052950370) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-11T12:57Z 2.1M followers, 233.9K engagements


"We developed a new technique for measuring the boys' heights accurately: we make them put their heels on a piece of paper and if Jessica can pull it out we know they're cheating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977299067504894174) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-12T09:03Z 2.1M followers, 81.8K engagements


"This monster parsnip from our garden ended up yielding three dinners and a lunch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977484639330553990) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-12T21:20Z 2.1M followers, 75.8K engagements


"Me: How much salt do you put in your tomato sauce Jessica: Not too much. But not too little. Me: How long do you cook it for Jessica: Not too long"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977724693957267913) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T13:14Z 2.1M followers, 116K engagements


"Pictures of quinces by John Aldridge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977738852400779532) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T14:11Z 2.1M followers, 41.3K engagements


"Benioff is eccentric and maybe well-meaning but I can't help noticing his oscillations coincide with whatever side has the upper hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977742715128348974) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T14:26Z 2.1M followers, 245.1K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978429938500784208) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-15T11:57Z 2.1M followers, 146.1K engagements


""My plan for dealing with the mornings getting darker is to sleep longer." Jessica"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978446147795439646) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-15T13:01Z 2.1M followers, 63.7K engagements


"Good cofounder no cofounder bad cofounder. This may seem obvious but a lot of people don't seem to grasp it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978772269284340022) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-16T10:37Z 2.1M followers, 333.7K engagements


"Wow tariffs have increased prices dramatically for domestic goods as well as imported. Obviously because domestic goods use imported materials and components. But apparently that wasn't obvious to the people who cooked up this policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978782257910329711) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-16T11:17Z 2.1M followers, 428.9K engagements


"@simonsarris In questions of growth it's the slope that matters and this is a dramatic slope"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978796467834790011) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-16T12:13Z 2.1M followers, 9629 engagements


"This is common among the most successful startups. It may seem wasteful but it's a good idea to have some extra money in the bank as insurance against disasters and the most successful startups have that luxury"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979101402346512506) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T08:25Z 2.1M followers, 472.5K engagements


"@eliasstravik The hot startups they're just happy to be in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979119264700228059) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T09:36Z 2.1M followers, 12.2K engagements


"@ssijak If you buy insurance and don't end up filing a claim have you spent money on nothing (No.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979119811993968714) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T09:38Z 2.1M followers, 11.8K engagements


"@stalmico There is nothing that makes you more attractive to most investors than not needing their money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979120658006089766) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T09:41Z 2.1M followers, 7459 engagements


"It's easier to innovate when you're the original of something. People copying you can only copy a snapshot of your current state. They don't know which aspects of the snapshot are essential and which are random things you'd been about to change anyway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979477064878330340) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T09:18Z 2.1M followers, 214.2K engagements


"@hthieblot Advisors at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979478704628621318) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T09:24Z 2.1M followers, 88.3K engagements


"TIL the C in ENIAC was "Computor.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979589710927241558) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T16:45Z 2.1M followers, 42.7K engagements


"@TheEconomist He has to keep fighting simply because it would weaken him to admit publicly that he can't win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979591415928869228) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T16:52Z 2.1M followers, 30.5K engagements


"@Austen It's similar at Y Combinator except ideally you never go back to normal life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1980293121847259208) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-20T15:20Z 2.1M followers, 10K engagements


"@JonErlichman The dollar has decreased in value by about X% since Trump took office. So that $60t is really more like $54t"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1980388998729331159) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-20T21:41Z 2.1M followers, 63.3K engagements


"Prediction: LLMs in their current form may not be able to do everything but AI now has enough momentum that this won't matter. Beam engines couldn't do everything either but they were enough to set off the Industrial Revolution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1980533520021045567) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-21T07:16Z 2.1M followers, 368.8K engagements


"@GaryMarcus What I mean is that AI has enough momentum now that the limits of LLMs whatever they turn out to be won't matter because we'll discover other technologies that are more powerful. Just as in (say) 1800 the eventual development of internal combustion engines was inevitable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1980652258170925556) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-21T15:07Z 2.1M followers, 11.6K engagements


"@aphysicist Steam engines did no such thing. Newcomen engines the first steam engines were so inefficient that they were only useful in coal mines where the fuel was right there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1980653920142913679) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-21T15:14Z 2.1M followers, 31.6K engagements