Ask HN: Best Paul Graham Essays

12 points·ryanjmo··13 comments

Add and up-vote your favorites. http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

Why Nerds Are Unpopular. http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

Especially this part:

"Where I grew up, it felt as if there was nowhere to go, and nothing to do. This was no accident. Suburbs are deliberately designed to exclude the outside world, because it contains things that could endanger children.

And as for the schools, they were just holding pens within this fake world. Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. In fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done. And I have no problem with this: in a specialized industrial society, it would be a disaster to have kids running around loose.

What bothers me is not that the kids are kept in prisons, but that (a) they aren't told about it, and (b) the prisons are run mostly by the inmates."

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

I check it every so often to see if I'm hitting any of them too hard. Great gut check tool.

What Business Can Learn from Open Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html

Ramen Profitable: http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html

What You'll Wish You'd Known: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

How to do what you love - http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html

Lies We Tell Kids: http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html

Startups in 13 Sentences: http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html

What Startups Are Really Like: http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss: http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html

Organic Startup Ideas: http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html

Why TV Lost: http://www.paulgraham.com/convergence.html

Be Good: http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html

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