Paul Buchheit
@paultoo
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For entertainment purposes only
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Joined February 2007
There is a deeper truth which I struggle to fully articulate: Truth is a story. Narrative shapes Truth. Truth flows from Narrative. "That's not true", your story says, "I have facts!" But facts alone are meaningless. The Narrative determines which facts are relevant and
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One advantage of having many distinct sovereign nations instead of a single world government is that they can try different policies and we can see which work best.
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There’s a 2X YC founder who’s in the current F25 batch after selling their previous YC startup for ~$1B. That says all you need to know about whether YC is “worth it”
Applications for the YC Winter 2026 batch are now open! Apply by November 10: https://t.co/gNl84El3BS
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Sen. Chuck Grassley just revealed that Jack Smith sent a subpoena to Verizon to tap my Senate office phone. This comes after learning that nearly 20% of Senate Republicans’ cellphones, including mine, were also subpoenaed. Arctic Frost is the Biden DOJ’s Watergate, and they
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In the YC S14 batch, @paultoo and I led a group office section that included @oklo and @rigetti, as well as @Helion_Energy. Building a meaningful startup is more common than expected if your bet on the future is accurate + you have staying power. Still early innings for these.
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I met my wife when we were 23. Knew we’d get married after the first date. Got married 6 months later. I lived in a car for most of our engagement. We had roughly zero dollars, definitely a negative net worth. 13 years and 4 kids later by far the smartest thing I’ve ever done.
“The one thing money can’t buy,” said Luckey, “is people who liked you before you had money. I’m very lucky that I met my wife back when I had literally nothing. When we met, I had less than $300 in my bank account … I probably should have gotten married, should have married her
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Steve Jobs on the most important job of a CEO “The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is. Leadership is having a vision,
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we should have environmental impact statements for regulations. before any regulation is implemented regulators should have to prepare 10,000 page documents explaining how it will impact the business ecosystem.
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Former CDC Director under Trump, Dr. Robert Redfield, just said Covid vaccines should not have been mandated. And that Biden and Fauci lied to the American public. “When we looked at the Covid vaccines, which I was part of with Operation Warp Speed, the Covid vaccine should
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🚨 BREAKING: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) says as soon as Kamala Harris called President Trump a "fascist" - "I KNEW we LOST THE PLOT." "This extreme rhetoric makes it easier for these extreme actions, like what happened to Charlie Kirk. And now they can't allow people to
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Idiocracy (2006) opens by throwing you straight into its hilariously dumbed-down future.
Of all movie opening scenes, what one sold the entire film the most?
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The story of how the American Academy of Pediatrics *caused* an epidemic of peanut allergies with their reckless and unscientific warnings is an important one in the suicide of expertise https://t.co/AiqiBHggJa
The story begins in 2000, when the American Academy of Pediatrics decided to issue some simple advice to parents: Have your kids avoid peanuts early in life. Don't expose them until they're at least three!
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I don’t care what people say. The new White House ball room is going to be sick.
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New Dalton + Michael video just released Michael and I debated what degree of process is helpful vs unhelpful in startups for many years at YC. Not sure people will guess which of us is usually on each side of the debate :)
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This is as pure a distillation of academic bigotry as one could ever expect to see openly expressed. The bigotry undermines science. Academic group think supported unscientific ideas like lockdowns, mask mandates, immunity denial, vax mandates and so much covid era nonsense.
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I get a version of this response every time I write about viewpoint diversity, and it is mind-boggling to watch people simultaneously insisting that academia is super-open-minded and empirical and in no way a progressive bubble, and also that conservatives are all fascists.
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If the government can be this dumb, they are too big. Period. It’s time to break up Big Government.
If a company can break the entire internet, they are too big. Period. It's time to break up Big Tech.
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Jensen Huang: “The best career advice I got was from a gardener” “Very few people know this but I don’t wear a watch,” Nvidia founder Jensen Huang begins. “And the reason I don’t wear a watch is because now is the most important time. Just dedicate yourself to now.” Jensen
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