Track which Paul Graham essays I've read and haven't read

As I mention at the top of the org file, I cannot rely on my web browser
informing me which of these essays I've read; it only shows me which of the
links I've clicked.

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+# I'd like to read all of Paul Graham's essays. I cannot rely on my web browser
+# to tell me which I've already read, so I'm resorting to an org file.
+* TODO How to Write Usefully
+* DONE Being a Noob
+* TODO Haters
+* TODO The Two Kinds of Moderate
+* TODO Fashionable Problems
+* TODO Having Kids
+* DONE The Lesson to Unlearn
+* TODO Novelty and Heresy
+* TODO The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
+* TODO General and Surprising
+* DONE Charisma / Power
+* TODO The Risk of Discovery
+* TODO How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
+* TODO Life is Short
+* TODO Economic Inequality
+* TODO The Refragmentation
+* TODO Jessica Livingston
+* TODO A Way to Detect Bias
+* TODO Write Like You Talk
+* TODO Default Alive or Default Dead?
+* TODO Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
+* TODO Change Your Name
+* TODO What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?
+* TODO The Ronco Principle
+* TODO What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
+* TODO Don't Talk to Corp Dev
+* TODO Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
+* TODO How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
+* TODO How You Know
+* TODO The Fatal Pinch
+* DONE Mean People Fail
+* TODO Before the Startup
+* TODO How to Raise Money
+* TODO Investor Herd Dynamics
+* TODO How to Convince Investors
+* TODO Do Things that Don't Scale
+* TODO Startup Investing Trends
+* TODO How to Get Startup Ideas
+* TODO The Hardware Renaissance
+* TODO Startup = Growth
+* TODO Black Swan Farming
+* TODO The Top of My Todo List
+* TODO Writing and Speaking
+* TODO How Y Combinator Started
+* TODO Defining Property
+* TODO Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
+* TODO A Word to the Resourceful
+* TODO Schlep Blindness
+* TODO Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
+* TODO Why Startup Hubs Work
+* TODO The Patent Pledge
+* TODO Subject: Airbnb
+* TODO Founder Control
+* TODO Tablets
+* TODO What We Look for in Founders
+* TODO The New Funding Landscape
+* TODO Where to See Silicon Valley
+* TODO High Resolution Fundraising
+* TODO What Happened to Yahoo
+* TODO The Future of Startup Funding
+* TODO The Acceleration of Addictiveness
+* TODO The Top Idea in Your Mind
+* TODO How to Lose Time and Money
+* TODO Organic Startup Ideas
+* TODO Apple's Mistake
+* TODO What Startups Are Really Like
+* TODO Persuade xor Discover
+* TODO Post-Medium Publishing
+* TODO The List of N Things
+* TODO The Anatomy of Determination
+* TODO What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley
+* TODO The Trouble with the Segway
+* TODO Ramen Profitable
+* DONE Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
+* TODO A Local Revolution?
+* TODO Why Twitter is a Big Deal
+* TODO The Founder Visa
+* TODO Five Founders
+* TODO Relentlessly Resourceful
+* TODO How to Be an Angel Investor
+* TODO Why TV Lost
+* TODO Can You Buy a Silicon Valley?  Maybe.
+* TODO What I've Learned from Hacker News
+* TODO Startups in 13 Sentences
+* TODO Keep Your Identity Small
+* TODO After Credentials
+* TODO Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
+* TODO The High-Res Society
+* TODO The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
+* TODO Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
+* TODO A Fundraising Survival Guide
+* TODO The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
+* TODO Cities and Ambition
+* TODO Disconnecting Distraction
+* TODO Lies We Tell Kids
+* TODO Be Good
+* TODO Why There Aren't More Googles
+* TODO Some Heroes
+* TODO How to Disagree
+* TODO You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
+* TODO A New Venture Animal
+* TODO Trolls
+* TODO Six Principles for Making New Things
+* TODO Why to Move to a Startup Hub
+* TODO The Future of Web Startups
+* TODO How to Do Philosophy
+* TODO News from the Front
+* TODO How Not to Die
+* TODO Holding a Program in One's Head
+* TODO Stuff
+* TODO The Equity Equation
+* TODO An Alternative Theory of Unions
+* TODO The Hacker's Guide to Investors
+* TODO Two Kinds of Judgement
+* TODO Microsoft is Dead
+* TODO Why to Not Not Start a Startup
+* TODO Is It Worth Being Wise?
+* TODO Learning from Founders
+* TODO How Art Can Be Good
+* TODO The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
+* TODO A Student's Guide to Startups
+* TODO How to Present to Investors
+* TODO Copy What You Like
+* TODO The Island Test
+* TODO The Power of the Marginal
+* TODO Why Startups Condense in America
+* TODO How to Be Silicon Valley
+* TODO The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
+* TODO See Randomness
+* TODO Are Software Patents Evil?
+* TODO 6,631,372
+* TODO Why YC
+* TODO How to Do What You Love
+* TODO Good and Bad Procrastination
+* TODO Web 2.0
+* TODO How to Fund a Startup
+* TODO The Venture Capital Squeeze
+* TODO Ideas for Startups
+* TODO What I Did this Summer
+* TODO Inequality and Risk
+* TODO After the Ladder
+* TODO What Business Can Learn from Open Source
+* TODO Hiring is Obsolete
+* TODO The Submarine
+* TODO Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
+* TODO Return of the Mac
+* DONE Writing,  Briefly
+* TODO Undergraduation
+* TODO A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
+* TODO How to Start a Startup
+* TODO What You'll Wish You'd Known
+* TODO Made in USA
+* TODO It's Charisma, Stupid
+* TODO Bradley's Ghost
+* TODO A Version 1.0
+* TODO What the Bubble Got Right
+* TODO The Age of the Essay
+* TODO The Python Paradox
+* TODO Great Hackers
+* TODO Mind the Gap
+* TODO How to Make Wealth
+* TODO The Word "Hacker"
+* TODO What You Can't Say
+* TODO Filters that Fight Back
+* TODO Hackers and Painters
+* TODO If Lisp is So Great
+* TODO The Hundred-Year Language
+* TODO Why Nerds are Unpopular
+* TODO Better Bayesian Filtering
+* TODO Design and Research
+* TODO A Plan for Spam
+* TODO Revenge of the Nerds
+* TODO Succinctness is Power
+* TODO What Languages Fix
+* TODO Taste for Makers
+* TODO Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
+* TODO What Made Lisp Different
+* TODO The Other Road Ahead
+* TODO The Roots of Lisp
+* TODO Five Questions about Language Design
+* TODO Being Popular
+* DONE Java's Cover
+* DONE Beating the Averages
+* TODO Lisp for Web-Based Applications
+* TODO Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
+* TODO Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
+* TODO Programming Bottom-Up
+* TODO This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California