“The first type of judgement is the type where judging you is the end goal… But in fact there is a second much larger class of judgements where judging you is only a means to something else.”

—  Paul Graham

"Two Kinds Of Judgment", April 2007

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English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist 1964

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