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Have you read PG's essays? They are the closest thing you can get to a guideline to success. They make complete sense, and they are insanely valuable. His essa

• lutusp 13y ago
  > Have you read PG's essays? They are the closest thing you can get to a guideline to success. If they were a guideline to success, he would practice them instead of writing about them, and he would be richer than Bill Gates. There are no guidelines to success. Success isn't about guidelines, it's about a mixture of chance and a prepared mind. And you prepare your mind by gathering life experience. > His essays on wealth and startup ideas are absolutely true. Whoever "PG" is (you don't say), his advice is either useless or is based on a success that owes more to chance than to a winning system. Do you really think top business executives make 100 million dollars a year by applying deterministic success recipes they read in a book? > I don't think you understand what I'm asking for. No, believe me, as a successful programmer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer), I can tell you that it is you who don't understand what you're asking for.
  • jaredsohn 13y ago
    >Whoever "PG" is (you don't say), Paul Graham of Y Combinator (i.e. the accelerator that runs this site). :)