Paul Buchheit

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…

"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" = "You can just do things"

If you think the government is effective and spends money wisely, there is literally nothing stopping you from voluntarily sending them more money, beyond what you pay in taxes.

It was the summer of Windows '95... My first (and only) time shipping the kind of software that is sold in cardboard boxes at the mall

Steven Pinker: "Of the seventy million people who died in major 20th-century famines, 80 percent were victims of Communist regimes’ forced collectivization, punitive confiscation, and totalitarian central planning."

Excited that @paultoo will be participating in this 🇺🇸

The left's ideological foundations lean heavily on two myths: 1) Peaceful Savage: That early humans lived in harmonious, egalitarian, cooperative societies, corrupted later by property. 2) Blank slate: That human nature is entirely shaped by environment & culture, not biology.

America is still the greatest country in the history of the world. What exists here is outside the norm of human history. It may not be perfect, but it’s as close as we’ve gotten. Unfortunately, far too few Americans realize it and instead focus on the imperfections to the…

Last week, Gallup polled only 36% of Democrats are “extremely or very proud” to be American. In the greatest country in the world, that’s just wrong. I’m unapologetically grateful for our nation and the American Way of Life—today, and always. Happy Birthday, America. 🇺🇸

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Keep skilled immigration legal

I'm thinking it might be fun to have more kids again once we're in our 80's

In 30 years, I'll probably be younger than I am now (or dead)

Discussion about Communism becomes a lot easier once you understand that the system isn't meant to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, but rather to redistribute wealth and power from those who create value to government bureaucrats and their allies.

Socialists must seize the means of production since they are incapable of creating, maintaining, or managing it.

Google gave back Eric Migicovsky (@ericmigi) the entire Pebble operating system for free. After Pebble was acquired, Eric spent years trying other smartwatches. Nothing worked. Apple Watch, Pixel Watch; none checked his boxes. He wanted to restart Pebble, but rebuilding the…

Zero to $100,000,000,000 in twelve years After their demo day presentation, one investor complained to me that there were "too many food companies" That investor missed out on a >1000x return :)

Thank goodness @paultoo was hungry when we came in for our YC interview

DoorDash (S13) is now a $100B company!

Better to hire and fund people who are scrappy and hungry, who can build, who have high velocity, than the person with the fancy resume with the huge ego YC has *never* had success funding or hiring the latter "Hire for slope, not y-intercept." —@paultoo

Not many people know this, but OpenAI was actually started at YC in 2015, and was initially known as "YC Research". We were concerned that all of the AI technology would be locked up inside of one company (Google), and so created a "moonshot" effort to make the technology…