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  1. Essays

    The Age of the Essay: The Python Paradox: Great Hackers: Mind the Gap: How to Make Wealth: The Word "Hacker" What You Can't Say: Filters that Fight Back: Hackers and Painters: If Lisp is So Great: The Hundred-Year Language: Why Nerds are Unpopular: Better Bayesian Filtering: Design and Research: A Plan for Spam: Revenge of the Nerds ...

  2. Essays by Paul Graham

    A student's guide to startups. Paul Graham. The pros and cons of starting a startup in (or soon after) college. Pros: stamina, poverty, rootlessness, colleagues, ignorance. Cons: building stuff that looks like class projects.

  3. The Age of the Essay

    Remember the essays you had to write in high school? Topic sentence, introductory paragraph, supporting paragraphs, conclusion. The conclusion being, say, that Ahab in Moby Dick was a Christ-like figure. Oy. So I'm going to try to give the other side of the story: what an essay really is, and how you write one. Or at least, how I write one. Mods

  4. What You Can't Say

    Moral fashions more often seem to be created deliberately. When there's something we can't say, it's often because some group doesn't want us to. The prohibition will be strongest when the group is nervous. The irony of Galileo's situation was that he got in trouble for repeating Copernicus's ideas.

  5. I read and summarized all of Paul Graham's 200+ essays

    P.S Been spending the last few hours reading through Paul Graham 101 and loving it! My favourite insights so far are: See startups as a path to wealth over a small period of time. E.g 4x years, so need to work hard in 4 years, rather than work slowly in a 40 year job.

  6. Paul Graham's Essays in Audio

    Listen to audio versions of Paul Graham's essays on technology and startups. Paul Graham's Essays in Audio. Get Updates. Subscribe to get notified when new audio essays are available! Get Updates. A Project of One's Own. Pause Play % buffered 00:00. 00:00. Unmute Mute. Disable captions Enable captions.

  7. The Daily Graham

    Your daily dose of Paul Graham. Add your email to be sent a random passage from one of Paul Graham's great essays every day. This uses the Instagraham Graham-As-A-Service (PGAAS) platform. Made by Isaac Diamond. Thanks to Michael Shi. The Daily Graham.

  8. Paul Graham: On Determination & Success, Hard Work, Wealth Creation

    Paul Graham is a programmer, writer, and thinker, mostly known as the co-founder of Y Combinator - the world's most successful startup incubator. Paul wrote many great essays from which I decided to draw a couple of conclusions about success, technology, and startups. He released anthology "Hackers

  9. Paul Graham Essays

    Paul Graham's essays are a collection of thought-provoking writings that span a broad spectrum of topics. He shares insights and wisdom on entrepreneurship, startups, programming, and life itself.

  10. Paul Graham 101

    Paul Graham 101. Misc. There's probably no one who knows more about startups than Paul Graham. Having helped thousands of startups through Y Combinator, the startup accelerator he co-founded, there's a thing or two to learn from his essays. And Graham's wisdom isn't limited to startups either; his essays, read by millions, touch on ...

  11. 12 Great Essays by Paul Graham

    12 Great Articles by Gary Wolf. Great reading from the intersection between society and technology. 12 Great Essays by Paul Graham - The Electric Typewriter - Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.

  12. My Favorites List of Paul Graham's Essays. : r/ycombinator

    Hey Everyone, Hope you're doing well. I wanted to share my favorite essays of Paul Graham. I believe listening and reading advice from experienced people is a way of encoding success into your brain. In a sense, our brains let us code almost anything. Counterintuitively, reading does not seem like a part of this encoding because we forgot ...

  13. Paul Graham's 'The Age of the Essay'

    Paul Graham's 'The Age of the Essay'. Posted on August 4, 2014. A number of things struck me in Paul Graham's essay titled The Age of the Essay. Prehaps most importantly, this line: "Above all, make a habit of paying attention to things you're not supposed to, either because they're "inappropriate," or not important, or not ...

  14. GitHub

    Check out the releases page for the latest build, updated daily.. Download the complete collection of +200 essays from Paul Graham website and export them in EPUB, and Markdown for easy AFK reading. It turned out to be a whooping +500k words. I used the RSS originally made by Aaron Swartz shared by PG himself, feedparser, html2text, htmldate and Unidecode libraries for data cleaning and ...

  15. Wisdom from Paul Graham

    Paul Graham is the founder of Ycombinator — most sought after startup accelerator Wisdom from Paul Graham — Compilation of quotes, essays, podcasts & more

  16. Life is Short

    That gave me a way to answer the question, and the answer is that life actually is short. Having kids showed me how to convert a continuous quantity, time, into discrete quantities. You only get 52 weekends with your 2 year old. If Christmas-as-magic lasts from say ages 3 to 10, you only get to watch your child experience it 8 times.

  17. Top Must-Read Paul Graham Essays

    Entrepreneur, computer scientist, and venture capitalist Paul Graham is one of the most interesting and brilliant minds to follow in the startup world. He co-founded the accelerator Y Combinator and Hacker News; he also backed up many successful startups that turned into successful tech companies (like Airbnb). On Scalability Actually startups take off because the […]

  18. Paul Graham Essays

    Read Paul Graham's essays while saving your progress and view ratings.

  19. Paul Graham startup essays : r/Entrepreneurs

    Paul Graham is a Silicon Valley icon. He co-founded Y Combinator which invested in and supported the early development of AirBnb, DropBox, Reddit and CoinBase.Paul has a wealth of tech startup experience which he freely shares in his original and insightful essays.. In this post I highlight four essays which have influenced how I think and what I do. I thoroughly recommend Paul's essays ...

  20. Paul Graham GPT

    AI-powered search and chat for Paul Graham's essays. Paul Graham GPT. PaulGraham.com. Show Settings. Please enter yourOpenAI API keyin settings. AI-powered search & chat for Paul Graham's essays. Created by ...

  21. Rhetorical Analysis Of How To Do What You Love

    Paul Graham, the author of "How To Do What You Love" (2006), started writing and publishing in 2001. By 2015, he accomplished over 30 million views on his website where he posts all of his essays for readers to view. In "How To Do What You Love", Graham discusses whether a job is worth attending to every day, then he continues on about ...

  22. Careers in Law

    To me, Paul Graham's essays are an essential read for anyone starting a company. Paul Graham founded Y Combinator, the most successful (and first) startup incubator. He is one of the clearest ...

  23. Suddenly Trump Looks Older and More Deranged

    They're coming from prisons. They're coming from jails. They're coming from mental institutions and insane asylums. I—you know the press is always on because I say this.

  24. After AgentGPT's success, Reworkd pivots to web-scraping AI agents

    Paul Graham-backed startup Reworkd is building AI agents to scrape the web, and raised $2.75 million in seed funding. ... What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays ...

  25. How to Do Great Work

    The first step is to decide what to work on. The work you choose needs to have three qualities: it has to be something you have a natural aptitude for, that you have a deep interest in, and that offers scope to do great work. In practice you don't have to worry much about the third criterion.

  26. Billy Graham Research Paper

    Graham was disturbed by such doubt in the Word; the Bible is God's holy word. Later on Templeton renounced his faith. Billy Graham stayed strong in his faith, even in the face of doubt. According to Sherwood, Billy showed revere for God, in his whole life in the ministry. Because of this, Billy Graham is down-to-earth, while he was talking to ...

  27. Here's why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names

    A decade-old drama involving VC David Sacks and Rippling founder Parker Conrad over their previous company Zenefits has blown up this week into a finger-pointing fight on X with many among the ...

  28. Enough With the Economic Doomsaying

    The U.S. economy grew at a robust 2.8% in the second quarter, far faster than economists' predictions of just 2%. The miss is reminiscent of a long losing streak for doomsaying about the U.S ...

  29. The Best Essay

    The Best Essay. March 2024. Despite its title this isn't meant to be the best essay. My goal here is to figure out what the best essay would be like. It would be well-written, but you can write well about any topic. What made it special would be what it was about. Obviously some topics would be better than others.

  30. Olympic organizers to triathletes: Come on in, the Seine water is fine

    By Pat Graham, Kate Brumback, Associated Press. Takeaways and photos from Paris Olympics Day 3. By Jenna Fryer, Associated Press. Are the 2024 Paris Olympics gender equal? That depends how you ...