I call this "playing startup."
Edit: possibly not my own thought, for whatever that means. I just don't want to accidentally suggest to others that I steal thoughts. See child comments.
Edit: possibly not my own thought, for whatever that means. I just don't want to accidentally suggest to others that I steal thoughts. See child comments.
I also think that "playing startup" is so obvious that many people could have come up with it. That being said, it's also quite possible that I saw it somewhere and absorbed it without fully remembering the source and now have a false memory of coming up with it myself.
I will add though that it's pretty fascinating as someone who is so disinterested in (and at times has a disdain for) startup people and startup culture, to be accused along the lines of, "how dare you feign not knowing who Startup Person X is!"
That being said, I don't really know Paul as a Startup Person, only as an essayist and author. To that end, I'm happy to commend his book "On Lisp" to anyone's attention, though, as it's one of my very few desert-island technical books!