{"id":64,"date":"2005-04-27T11:34:34","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T16:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stein.everybody.org\/journal\/posts\/paul-graham\/"},"modified":"2013-04-27T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T18:19:00","slug":"paul-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/paul-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/bio.html\">Paul Graham<\/a> came up with <em>the<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/spam.html\">plan for dealing with spam<\/a>.  He also likes to write about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/iflisp.html\">Lisp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/gh.html\">hackers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/start.html\">start-up companies<\/a> because he&#8217;s a lisp hacker who started a company.<\/p>\n<p>I once wrote an email to Paul Graham about an idea for dealing with spam.  Tara and I share <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/thunderbird\/\">Thunderbird<\/a> as our email program, and when I wrote the email, I forgot to change the sender from Tara (the default) to me.  The next day, Tara asked me who Paul Graham was.  I told her and asked her why she asked.  &#8220;Well, he sent me this email out of the blue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tara enjoys teasing me about this.  Whenever I mention Paul Graham she says, &#8220;Oh Paul?  Yeah we email each other.&#8221;  It&#8217;s particularly ironic since Tara has little interest in most of what he writes.  However, his latest article was an exception.  Paul Graham writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/submarine.html\">where much of the mainstream news comes from<\/a>.  Tara was as fascinated by it as I was, so I commend it to your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/submarine.html\">reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, Paul Graham came up with the plan for dealing with spam. He also likes to write about Lisp, hackers and start-up companies because he&#8217;s a lisp hacker who started a company. I once wrote an email to Paul Graham about an idea for dealing with spam. Tara and I share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}