25th
March
2008
Coding Horror: Paul Graham’s Participatory Narcissism
“I have tremendous respect for Paul Graham. His essays– repackaged in the book Hackers and Painters– are among the best writing I’ve found on software engineering. Not all of them are so great, of course, but the majority are well worth your time. That’s more than I can say for 99.9-infinitely-repeating-percent of the content on the web. He’s certainly a better and more authoritative writer than I.
But lately I’ve begun to wonder whether Mr. Graham, like Joel Spolsky before him, has devolved into self-absorption and irrelevance. Consider his latest essay, You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss, which opens with this distasteful anecdote…”