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9 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
“I think if you said, “Okay, you have five hours to sit in a quiet room and build something,” I don’t think they’d be up to it, anyway.”
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- Paul Graham
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- Claim type
- belief
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- 9 Aug 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Of course. So, whatever the answer is, it’s not going to be kids these days. It will be a statement about school for centuries. Kids have such short attention spans. The one thing they can’t do is things that are big and long. I think if you said, “Okay, you have five hours to sit in a quiet room and build something,” I don’t think they’d be up to it, anyway. Our last segment is what I call the Paul Graham production function, which is how you got to be Paul Graham. Would you major in philosophy again at Cornell, if you were doing it all over?…
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