If people often give advice about how to do a certain thing, pretty soon you are going to think that the thing is important.

Many people seem to survive 7 hours of advice on how to write properly, solve math problems, and understand history and science for 175 days a year over 12 of their most impressionable years without thinking any of those things are important. That doesn't give me a lot of cause for alarm over a 15 minute Paul Graham talk

It's still good to call out bullshit when you see it.