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A bone tossed to the writers in the crowd :)

"Switching back to writing has confirmed something I've always suspected: writing is harder than hacking. They're both hard to do well, but writing has an additional element of panic that isn't there in hacking."

You also know when code "works".

It's much more difficult to know if writing works.

Though both are never bug-free.

This is a key point.

Building stuff is easy. The difficulty lies in evaluating what you build.

I like to read his essays on paulgraham.com better anyway. Having to check both feeds (you use the unofficial rss feed for pg.com right?) was just annoying.

I get pissed when people break permalinks.

Paul Graham's (defunct) Blog