Will YC’s newly launched The Macro fall victim to its founders’ bad ideas?

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The author's remark on Twitter reads to me as if she has been waiting for an opportunity to criticize pg's recent essay.[0]

There doesn't really seem to be a fair basis for the author's criticisms of The Macro, seeing as The Macro has just launched. Edit: article's flagged so whatever, but to complete my own thoughts… It strikes me as uncharitable to attack this new project based on one essay, and unfair to demand an organization change for the better but attack it before it can attempt change.

[0] "Finally got to talk about that ridiculous Paul Graham essay." (https://twitter.com/lhockenson/status/667786124165705728)

I really did not enjoy with or agree with this piece but I encourage others not to flag it due to eco-chamber risk.

Many users did flag it—understandably, since it's an unsubstantive hit piece. The flags killed the post, but we unkilled it so people can continue to post comments here if they want to.

Yeah that makes sense. Whether it was a hit piece or not is what I was encouraging people to avoid making a judgement on (echo-chamber risk, etc) but the fact that lacks substance is a fact.

tl;dr: a hit piece in which the author uses the launch of The Macro to criticize (and not insightfully) YC on completely unrelated topics.

Bleh, what a hit job of an article... the title made me think that it would be something other than a "Silicon Valley is too whitemaleofascist!"

Fuck these people.

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