I think it’s true that the impactfullness of his essays has gone down in the recent years. However, note that a lot of people that gathered at HN in the early days came because of his early essays, such as Hackers and Painters. Me included.

> He also should have run this through a spell checker.

What's an example of a spelling mistake in it? I read it carefully and didn't notice any.

Gonna leave that as an exercise to the reader. (You could run it through a spell checker, too.)

There aren't any spelling errors. If you want to claim otherwise it would be easy for you to show examples.

By now, it has been corrected. When I wrote my comment, "surprising" in end note [1] was misspelled "suprising."

Still visible at the internet archive, btw.

i don’t think he was rich when he first started?

also other rich people also write stuff. nobody reads that shit.

I also have the very strong suspicion that he was never poor

A little unclear on what your point is. If it is that Graham is widely read in a way that other rich people aren't, then that's just wrong. Outside of the VC and startup scenes, he isn't read at all.