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Ask HN: Who are some writers/thinkers similar to Paul Graham and Sam Altman?

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I gain a lot of insight on the technology world reading from the writings (essays, blog posts) of Paul Graham and Sam Altman. However, I would like to increase my limited scope.

Irrespective of viewpoint, who are some people that think and write in a similar style, and on similar topics?

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Not sure if this qualifies as similar to PG, but I'd throw in Joel Spolsky of Trello and StackOverflow fame (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/) in there. He doesn't blog anymore, but there's a decade's worth of posts there concerning technology, product management and startups. Some other names off the top of my head: Hanselman, Coding Horror, AVC, Both sides of the table, Justin Kan (only read a few posts that showed up on HN, but I liked them.)

Read everything you can find by Patrick McKenzie. It's more consulting than startup in focus, but it's gold, all of it. Random bits of enterprise software-sales gold mixed in with consulting and sales and marketing gold. Also look up some of the best-of comments on this forum by Thomas Ptacek ('tptacek). Those guys helped me make way more consulting than I would have without reading their stuff (seriously quadrupled my rates and it's a good thing I made the next deal over the phone because I could barely keep a straight face).

I'm a big fan of idlewords's contrasting take on tech: http://idlewords.com/

Ben Thompson of Stratechery: https://stratechery.com/

And my most recommended read of all, Slate Star Codex: http://slatestarcodex.com/ (Skip all the link posts and open threads; just read his essays. Superb.)

Michael O'Church /s

Have always enjoyed these guys

http://andrewchen.co/ Andrew Chen of Uber http://jwegan.com/ John Wegan of Pinterest

Probably more growth/product focused than PG and SA, but definitely give some excellent insight.

Andreessen Horowitz: http://a16z.com

I enjoyed every single essay from Dustine Curtis of Svbtle https://dcurt.is/

Seth Godin has some pretty interesting books. I am listening to the audio version of Linchpin right now.

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