In his essay How to Start a Startup, Paul Graham throws in the following observation:
People who don’t want to get dragged into some kind of work often develop a protective incompetence at it. Paul Erdos was particularly good at this. By seeming unable even to cut a grapefruit in half (let alone go to the store and buy one), he forced other people to do such things for him, leaving all his time free for math. Erdos was an extreme case, but most husbands use the same trick to some degree.
I know Graham is smart, but must he expose domestic secrets while he’s handing out lessons about startup life?