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I Stumbled Upon Paul Graham's Essays – and Can't Stop Reading

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I stumbled upon Paul Graham’s essays and couldn’t stop reading. Just wow — how can one person be that insightful?

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How is a post with literally 2 points the top of /ask

The algorithm on this site makes no sense sometimes

It seems based heavily on recency? Not a lot questions per day it seems. Does anyone have the algorithm for ranking?

Don't take it seriously, it's just luck.

> how can one person be that insightful

Then you will truly be blown away by Aristotle, Newton, Plato, Kant, Darwin, Einstein, Marx, Confucius, Leibniz, Freud.

Yeah maybe my standard is high but PG is just another essayist. I’d rather reach for real literature or historical non-fiction before PG. I will grant for the tech industry it’s some of the more insightful stuff I’ve seen but I don’t need more folk wisdom, I need more screen-free doing and less consumption of text.

Yes, actually I also read a lot of Aristotle. Totally blown away by such wisdom!!

https://paulgraham.com/articles.html

Which essay do you like the best? It inspires me so much and makes me want to keep writing. As he said, there’s a kind of thinking that can only be owned by writing.

My favorite is "Do things that don't scale" (https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html), which has been really inspiring for my indie product work. Especially for those of us building internet products, we often tend to build scalable things right from the start, but in reality, products in the early stages require founders to do a lot of non-automated dirty work.

For entrepreneurs, reading Paul Graham's articles is incredibly useful.

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Yes! That’s one of my favorite essays right now too. It also reminds me of what Stripe did early on — they focused on serving just 50 customers in the first two years, but went all in on doing it really well.

https://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

https://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html

https://www.paulgraham.com/college.html

https://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

Thank you!! Gonna read them one by one!

Congratulations, you're one of the lucky 10,000. Here's the appropriate XKCD ref.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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