Rendered at 11:54:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Cloudflare Workers.
bryanph_ 12 minutes ago [-]
When Paul Graham uses a phrase like "great work" I can't help but only consider it as being synonymous to "work that generates a big return for the investor" in his context of Y Combinator
dtj1123 60 minutes ago [-]
Genuine question, what work has Paul Graham done that can be classified as 'great'?
I think all the parts were invented by other people, but he got the right mix to make it work.
It's also like the wheel. Before it was a huge problem and no one know how to solve it. Now it's invisible.
Note that all modern versions use enhanced variants with a lot or trick to make it better.
durdn 35 minutes ago [-]
He wrote a lot about this. For example he built an e-commerce meta platform in Lisp that would allow anyone to build and customise their own shops that was far ahead of anything that existed at the time.
baconbkr 43 minutes ago [-]
Creating YCombinator
ignoramous 34 minutes ago [-]
Per Graham's own definition, the founding to Y Combinator. Setting aside critiques, some of his influential essays ("Ramen profitable", "Do things that don't scale", "Founder mode", "Beating the averages", "Schelp blindness", etc) also fit the bill.
48 minutes ago [-]
tosh 28 minutes ago [-]
good related read: You and Your Research (Hamming)
There’s something cringey about having a zillion dollars and then using your cash soapbox to bloviate to everyone about how to be great-like-me.
condenser 1 hours ago [-]
There's nothing "cringey" about sharing your own ideas in your own blog. What's cringey is this kind of pointless ankle-biting.
gaigalas 1 hours ago [-]
The people qualified to do great work probably don't need the advice. They most likely lack resources (like money or free time), not guidance.
The people who would benefit from the advice (resourceful people full of free time that are doing nothing meaningful) will likely ignore it anyway.
subygan 43 minutes ago [-]
this is one of the common conundrums of life. but for someone living in the grey, this stuff might push them over the edge to be great. that is the point of this article
screamingninja 28 minutes ago [-]
You assume that people are rigid in their habits. Inspiration goes a long way. Habits can be shaped greatly with the right motivation and mentorship.
21 minutes ago [-]
32 minutes ago [-]
wseqyrku 2 hours ago [-]
You can listen to this on youtube with pg's own voice which I find a pretty neat use of AI.
staplar 43 minutes ago [-]
I mostly use Safari Listen feature, on my phone, to listen to it while walking. Pretty neat and doesn’t clutter my YouTube history.
wseqyrku 11 minutes ago [-]
It's not like I wanted to play it in the background. In this particular case, I rather watch the talk than reading the essay if it's available. It's just interesting to have this option now which wasn't possible before.
conartist6 54 minutes ago [-]
Why? What's neat? To hear his thoughts the way he would voice them? But you're only pretending to...
wseqyrku 25 minutes ago [-]
Because I enjoy his talks but he obviously didn't do a talk for every single essay.
iammjm 1 hours ago [-]
Why not just read it out loud himself and record it?
I think all the parts were invented by other people, but he got the right mix to make it work.
It's also like the wheel. Before it was a huge problem and no one know how to solve it. Now it's invisible.
Note that all modern versions use enhanced variants with a lot or trick to make it better.
https://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
The people who would benefit from the advice (resourceful people full of free time that are doing nothing meaningful) will likely ignore it anyway.