Outdated? Yes, and yet they are largely relevant because the culture around startups are largely the same from when they were written. There's a comment I read-

Outdated? Yes, and yet they are largely relevant because the culture around startups are largely the same from when they were written. There's a comment I read-- "The brain (culture) knows it -- but the heart (economy) hasn't caught up yet."[0] -- that applies to this. In general we can say startups have largely become a predictable path to take for anyone with the competence to go through with the process. This has , in one way, to coin it gentrified and/or mainstream it. I think this is actually a good sign as it means theres "slack" in our general ecosystem to allow such outcome. But it should not in any way allow anyone to ignore that it also means we should probably be working/concentrating on harder/ridiculous problems to solve. Yes, you could probably correlate this with low-interest rates and macro market trends but that's another story for another time. To conclude, I think we live in some of the best times to build and in general, especially if you are already here (on HN). Reading Paul's essays can still be of value and I'd bet there would be value in updating and/or revising the essays in general; just like author's revisiting/updating great books over time. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34673325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34673325 EDIT: I'd like to add some links to some comments that had done a good job of listing some of the worthy information to revisit from Paul's essays. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34751744 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34751744 [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34752781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34752781