Resources: Paul Graham
My Favorite Paul Graham Essays
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My favorite article is Determination.
Life is Short made me realize how much time and energy people waste on bullshit. Since then, I've been working on avoiding that.
The Lesson to Unlearn explained to me what frustrated me about school and university and why I wanted to start a startup. I wasn’t aware of it at the time, and the article hit the nail on the head.
Why Nerds are Unpopular is controversial and, if you’re open to it, both painful and eye-opening.
Schlep Blindness, Do Things That Don't Scale, How Not to Die, How to Make Wealth, and Early Work are my favorite articles on startups. A great introduction is his Stanford lecture "Before the startup" (YouTube)