Paul Graham (@paulg)

It's a very exciting time in tech right now. If you're a first-rate programmer, there are a huge number of other places you can go work rather than at the company building the infrastructure of the police state. <span class="quote-card" data-quote-index="0"></span>...

As a startup investor I should be excited by the prospect of tariffs enabling a new batch of American companies. But I'm not. The really big successes, like Microsoft and Google, grow out of the founders' own interests, not the prospect of a (probably temporary) price advantage....

Prediction: Biden won't be the Democratic nominee. I don't have any recent inside information, which as I'll explain, is one reason I think so....