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I am unreasonably excited about this new purchase.

Paul Graham expresses intense excitement about a new purchase, sharing a photo of the item (likely a large format printer, based on the image context).

Background

- Paul Graham (YC co-founder, essayist, prominent Silicon Valley voice) posted this in 2025 — his first non-Retina MacBook Air purchase in years, likely the M4 model (released March 2025). - The joke: he is "unreasonably excited" about a laptop that most power users would see as underpowered. This is a classic Graham move — mini-manifesto-as-tweet, anti-bloat, celebrating constraint and simplicity. - Context: Graham has been off-X for years and returned recently; this tweet got massive engagement for its implicit argument about developer tools and focus. - The image shows a base MacBook Air, silver, no Touch Bar, no Pro branding — deliberately bare.

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