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Paul Graham @paulg · 20 Aug 2026

@paulg Paul, come on you’re better than this. The guy was appointed to a prestigious postdoc with one publication with 2 citations. I know people with 3 excellent books that can’t get a postdoc. Do we want to know who made the phone calls or do we prefer to encourage fraud because it’s
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