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There's one paragraph in there that I think sums the entire essay. When I read it I was so stuck by it that I put that paragraph on my desktop image (http://www

There's one paragraph in there that I think sums the entire essay. When I read it I was so stuck by it that I put that paragraph on my desktop image (http://www.cocunderground.com/desktop.jpg http://www.cocunderground.com/desktop.jpg). Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.

pius 19y ago
I'd add the closing paragraph to this as well: So when you look at something like Reddit and think "I wish I could think of an idea like that," remember: ideas like that are all around you. But you ignore them because they look wrong.
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- ratsbane 19y ago
  Reading PG's essays makes me very happy. Quoting again: Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly. Perfect.
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papersmith 19y ago
(g) Profit! Hence the gnomes' predicament is solved.