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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by rtpg on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:33PM (#42774894)
The classic Cantrill bit about not anthropormphizing Larry Ellison applies to a lot of tech CEOs.

Thing is Larry Ellison doesn't write blog posts acting like he's a philosopher. Some tech CEOs really position themselves as arbiters of culture and it just feels more and more like trying to transfer their tech/business positioning into a cultural one. I do not like it!

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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by fisherjeff on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:48PM (#42776395)
This is it, this is the best comment.

They’re all a bunch of aspiring lawnmowers, some of them just try to ride whatever the latest wave of popular opinion is to cynically accumulate some social currency.

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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by jppope on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @12:06AM (#42776822)
"Tech billionaires are really just a bunch of aspiring lawnmowers"

^^ I am totally behind this proposition even though its a 2nd effect allusion

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