Paul Graham: Essays

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A Local Revolution?

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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

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Ramen Profitable

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The Trouble with the Segway

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What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley

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The Anatomy of Determination

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The List of N Things

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Post-Medium Publishing

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Persuade xor Discover

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What Startups Are Really Like

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Apple's Mistake

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Organic Startup Ideas

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How to Lose Time and Money

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The Top Idea in Your Mind

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The Acceleration of Addictiveness

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The Future of Startup Funding

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What Happened to Yahoo

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High Resolution Fundraising

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Where to See Silicon Valley

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The New Funding Landscape

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What We Look for in Founders

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Tablets

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Founder Control

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Subject: Airbnb

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The Patent Pledge

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Why Startup Hubs Work

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Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998

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Schlep Blindness

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A Word to the Resourceful

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Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

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Defining Property

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How Y Combinator Started

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Writing and Speaking

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The Top of My Todo List

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Black Swan Farming

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Startup = Growth

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The Hardware Renaissance

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How to Get Startup Ideas

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Startup Investing Trends

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Do Things that Don't Scale

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How to Convince Investors

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Investor Herd Dynamics

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How to Raise Money

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Before the Startup

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Mean People Fail

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The Fatal Pinch

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How You Know

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How to Be an Expert in a Changing World

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Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In

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Don't Talk to Corp Dev

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What Doesn't Seem Like Work?

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The Ronco Principle

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What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?

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Change Your Name

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Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice

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Default Alive or Default Dead?

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Write Like You Talk

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A Way to Detect Bias

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Jessica Livingston

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The Refragmentation

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Economic Inequality

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Life is Short

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How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub

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The Risk of Discovery

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Charisma / Power

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General and Surprising

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The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

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Novelty and Heresy

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The Lesson to Unlearn

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Having Kids

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Fashionable Problems

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The Two Kinds of Moderate

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Haters

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Being a Noob

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How to Write Usefully

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Coronavirus and Credibility

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Orthodox Privilege

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The Four Quadrants of Conformism

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Modeling a Wealth Tax

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Early Work

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How to Think for Yourself

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The Airbnbs

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Billionaires Build

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Earnestness

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What I Worked On

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Donate Unrestricted

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Write Simply

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How People Get Rich Now

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The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty

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An NFT That Saves Lives

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Crazy New Ideas

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Fierce Nerds

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A Project of One's Own

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How to Work Hard

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Weird Languages

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Beyond Smart

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Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?

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Putting Ideas into Words

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Heresy

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What I've Learned from Users

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Alien Truth

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What You (Want to)* Want

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The Need to Read

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How to Get New Ideas

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How to Do Great Work

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Superlinear Returns

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