Essays by Paul Graham
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A Fundraising Survival Guide
A Local Revolution?
A New Venture Animal
A Plan for Spam
A Project of One's Own
A Student's Guide to Startups
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
A Version 1.0
A Way to Detect Bias
A Word to the Resourceful
After Credentials
After the Ladder
Alien Truth
An Alternative Theory of Unions
An NFT That Saves Lives
Apple's Mistake
Are Software Patents Evil?
Be Good
Beating the Averages
Before the Startup
Being a Noob
Being Popular
Better Bayesian Filtering
Beyond Smart
Billionaires Build
Black Swan Farming
Bradley's Ghost
Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.
Change Your Name
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
Charisma / Power
Cities and Ambition
Copy What You Like
Coronavirus and Credibility
Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
Crazy New Ideas
Default Alive or Default Dead?
Defining Property
Design and Research
Disconnecting Distraction
Do Things that Don't Scale
Don't Talk to Corp Dev
Donate Unrestricted
Early Work
Earnestness
Economic Inequality
Fashionable Problems
Fierce Nerds
Filters that Fight Back
Five Founders
Five Questions about Language Design
Founder Control
Founder Mode
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
General and Surprising
Good and Bad Procrastination
Good Writing
Great Hackers
Hackers and Painters
Haters
Having Kids
Heresy
High Resolution Fundraising
Hiring is Obsolete
Holding a Program in One's Head
How Art Can Be Good
How Not to Die
How People Get Rich Now
How to Be an Angel Investor
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
How to Be Silicon Valley
How to Convince Investors
How to Disagree
How to Do Great Work
How to Do Philosophy
How to Do What You Love
How to Fund a Startup
How to Get New Ideas
How to Get Startup Ideas
How to Lose Time and Money
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
How to Make Wealth
How to Present to Investors
How to Raise Money
How to Start a Startup
How to Start Google
How to Think for Yourself
How to Work Hard
How to Write Usefully
How Y Combinator Started
How You Know
Ideas for Startups
If Lisp is So Great
Inequality and Risk
Investor Herd Dynamics
Is It Worth Being Wise?
Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?
It's Charisma, Stupid
Java's Cover
Jessica Livingston
Keep Your Identity Small
Learning from Founders
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
Lies We Tell Kids
Life is Short
Lisp for Web-Based Applications
Made in USA
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
Mean People Fail
Microsoft is Dead
Mind the Gap
Modeling a Wealth Tax
News from the Front
Novelty and Heresy
Organic Startup Ideas
Orthodox Privilege
Persuade xor Discover
Post-Medium Publishing
Programming Bottom-Up
Putting Ideas into Words
Ramen Profitable
Relentlessly Resourceful
Return of the Mac
Revenge of the Nerds
Schlep Blindness
See Randomness
Six Principles for Making New Things
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
Some Heroes
Startup = Growth
Startup Investing Trends
Startups in 13 Sentences
Stuff
Subject: Airbnb
Succinctness is Power
Superlinear Returns
Tablets
Taste for Makers
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
The Age of the Essay
The Airbnbs
The Anatomy of Determination
The Best Essay
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
The Equity Equation
The Fatal Pinch
The Founder Visa
The Four Quadrants of Conformism
The Future of Startup Funding
The Future of Web Startups
The Hacker's Guide to Investors
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
The Hardware Renaissance
The High-Res Society
The Hundred-Year Language
The Island Test
The Lesson to Unlearn
The List of N Things
The Need to Read
The New Funding Landscape
The Origins of Wokeness
The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
The Other Road Ahead
The Patent Pledge
The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
The Power of the Marginal
The Python Paradox
The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty
The Reddits
The Refragmentation
The Right Kind of Stubborn
The Risk of Discovery
The Ronco Principle
The Roots of Lisp
The Shape of the Essay Field
The Submarine
The Top Idea in Your Mind
The Top of My Todo List
The Trouble with the Segway
The Two Kinds of Moderate
The Venture Capital Squeeze
The Word "Hacker"
This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California
Trolls
Two Kinds of Judgement
Undergraduation
Web 2.0
Weird Languages
What Business Can Learn from Open Source
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
What Happened to Yahoo
What I Did this Summer
What I Worked On
What I've Learned from Hacker News
What I've Learned from Users
What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley
What Languages Fix
What Made Lisp Different
What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?
What Startups Are Really Like
What the Bubble Got Right
What to Do
What We Look for in Founders
What You (Want to)* Want
What You Can't Say
What You'll Wish You'd Known
When To Do What You Love
Where to See Silicon Valley
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
Why Nerds are Unpopular
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
Why Startup Hubs Work
Why Startups Condense in America
Why There Aren't More Googles
Why to Move to a Startup Hub
Why to Not Not Start a Startup
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
Why TV Lost
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
Why YC
Write Like You Talk
Write Simply
Writes and Write-Nots
Writing and Speaking
Writing, Briefly
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
