Keep Your Identity Small
BlogPaul GrahamJun 14, 2009
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The fewer labels you adopt as identity ('I'm a Republican', 'I'm a Mac user', 'I'm a vim person'), the better you can think. Once something is your identity, you can't think clearly about it — you're committed to defending it. Limit your identities.
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February 2009 I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions. As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people…
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