I started reading Paul Graham's essays after listening to his talk: https://web.archive.org/web/20130729231533id_/http://itc.con...

Through pg's essays, which I discovered via a Joel Spolsky blog post. Perhaps this one: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...

Coworker about 10 years ago. Took me a few years to register an account.

I think i got linked here from a slashdot article. That one is flooded with russian trolls nowadays so i mostly visit hacker news, and people are nicer here too

Cant remember. Probably searching for an answer to some coding problem.

It was so long ago (with a different account), that I don't remember.

Saw I post on /r/programming in 2011.

I drew a graph of connections between Paul Graham essays, and coloured them via a PageRank-style weighting algorithm. I emailed it to PG, and he suggested I post it here.

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College roommate 17 years ago while doing NSF summer research, I am eternally grateful Eric!