def Paul Graham's Conformist Test

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Do you have opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

If the answer is no, there's a problem with you because our era isn't yet the one that gets everything right

Paul Graham, Be Good: summary

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Sometimes, the best way to develop a charity is to make it a company

Paul Graham, How to lose time and money: summary

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Fortunes are lost not through excessive spending (raises alarms), but through bad investments

Paul Graham: how to detect bias

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The test was biased against the selected group that later outperforms the others

(Paul Graham) def designer paradox

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You can't hire a good designer if you're not a sufficiently good designer yourself because you won't be able to recognize a good designer

Paul, Graham, What you can't say: summary

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a way to look for commonly held wrong beliefs is to ask what people can't say

Paul Graham, Modeling a wealth tax: summary

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small wealth taxes produce huge effects because they're applied repeatedly on the same money, year after year