Comment by tim333
10 years ago
PG may be a bit over optimistic about good triumphing but personality cult seems a bit inaccurate, certainly if you look at the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
10 years ago
PG may be a bit over optimistic about good triumphing but personality cult seems a bit inaccurate, certainly if you look at the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
I'm not saying that PG has built a cult of personality around himself, but rather around the narrative of the ethical, hard-working, pull your own bootstraps, outsider hacker hero.
Think Steve Jobs, Zuck, etc.
> I'm not saying that PG has built a cult of personality around himself
Heh. Are you kidding? Paul Graham could post a fart on Hacker News and it'd get 1200 upvotes in 10 minutes.
That's a non sequitur. Not only did pg not build a cult of personality around himself, he has a complete horror of it.
PG's reputation, including on HN, is because of his essays and what he did with YC.
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