This turned out to be horribly prescient.

- Paul Graham is a well-known tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and essayist; co-founder of Y Combinator (the influential startup accelerator). - This is a post on X (formerly Twitter) from June 2012. The "prescient" part is about his observation on feuds vs. wars: in war, you want to take territory and killing people is a means to that end; in a feud, killing people is the actual goal. - This idea became relevant years later with the rise of "cancel culture," online mobs, and an increasing number of personal/ideological disputes (in tech, politics, and media) where participants seem more interested in destroying reputations or careers than in achieving any material or strategic victory.