I now want to make up bumper stickers that read “What Would Paul Graham Do?”
Wanting to associate your identity with a person, in part because they have a very good argument for why you shouldn’t associate your identity with things, and then doing something more important instead… there’s something almost poetic or ironic about it.
On the plus side at least it indicates that they aren’t so caught up in affiliation that we aren’t able to ignore his dogmas when it isn’t useful to us.
Wanting to associate your identity with a person, in part because they have a very good argument for why you shouldn’t associate your identity with things, and then doing something more important instead… there’s something almost poetic or ironic about it.
Poetic? Nice call.
On the plus side at least it indicates that they aren’t so caught up in affiliation that we aren’t able to ignore his dogmas when it isn’t useful to us.