I met Paul Graham at the LLC (little languages conference) at MIT in 200x. The founder of Ruby was giving a talk where he said "Common LISP is too hard. Procedural Macros are too hard! Ruby is easy."
Paul turned to me and said: "I build most of my company on Procedural Macros."
What I interpreted Paul to be saying was: "Don't follow the prevailing winds, unless you want prevailing (middling) results. Forge your own way. You'll get rewards, then, only you can get." He's saying that in "Founder Mode," too.
I've taken that advice to heart.
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