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Favorite PG essay?
http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
My fellow friends and I identify :)
- staunch 19y agoForced to choose one, I'd say What Business Can Learn From Open Source (http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html). I've felt that stuff for a long time but I was never able to articulate it like PG did. Now I just give people that essay and tell them "This will help explain where I'm coming from."
- tx 19y agoWow... I somehow managed to skip this one. Great read. I, however, cannot get rid of the feeling that in open source world there is always one or two "few" who get all the credit (money, fame) for work of many. Working on something you love is a wonderful thing, but in a realm of all acitivtes required to build something, not everything is a subject of someone's love. In other words, someone will always have to get paid to clean the restrooms.
- umjames 19y agoditto
- chwolfe 19y agoBeating The Averages http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
- brlewis 19y agoThat's the one that cured me of trying to evangelize Lisp. If the combination of pg's success and pg's essays wasn't going to win people over, nothing was.
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- awt 19y ago1. http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html 2. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
- daniel-cussen 19y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
- altano 19y ago"What you can't say" is definitely one that struck a chord. In fact, my paraphrasing the article online is the way I met my husband, so thanks Paul :)
- mattculbreth 19y agoBeating the Averages and The Python Paradox
- Goladus 19y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html - What You'll Wish You'd Known
- sabhishek 19y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html my all time fav.
- dfranke 19y agoI don't think I would have survived high school if I hadn't read "Why Nerds Are Unpopular".
- amichail 19y agoHackers and Painters http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html See also my view on this here: http://weblog.fortnow.com/2006/07/science-and-art-of-computation.html http://weblog.fortnow.com/2006/07/science-and-art-of-computa...
- dawie 19y agoMy favorite one is: http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html And this one really inspired me. http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
- pramodbiligiri 19y agoWhat You'll Wish You'd Known: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
- akkartik 19y agohttp://paulgraham.com/essay.html http://paulgraham.com/essay.html
- jamiequint 19y agoThe Power of the Marginal
- mojuba 19y agoSuccinctness is power -- http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html -- probably the best article for a language designer. Not only succinctness is power, it turns out to be the most important quality of a good programming language. The rest is a matter of taste, I think.
- geebee 19y agoWhile I'd pick Hackers and Painters, my favorite few paragraphs come from "Why to not not start a startup." http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html I find the comparison of a job to serfdom to be unsettling. Of course, a modern day cubicle dweller isn't living the kind of life of a medieval serf, but that won't necessarily stop people in the future from looking back on the lives of most people in the early 21st century with pity, wondering how they could have lived with so little personal freedom. It's not just the analogy, it's the optimism. One reason I'm so behind the new tech economy is that it's about more than business and money - this is about changing the rules. Even if you don't start a startup, or work for one, the way you work and live may be changed, much for the better, if startups prove that people who work freely and own their results dramatically outperform the serfdom of the cubicle dweller. I hope that we can prove that there's no hope in running a cubicle dwelling company - you will simply be thrashed and outperformed by more nimble startups.