From 6895b8b1efeb33211dcd77f038224d818d1b511a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Carroll Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:38:34 +0000 Subject: 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. --- org/essays.org | 190 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 190 insertions(+) create mode 100644 org/essays.org (limited to 'org/essays.org') diff --git a/org/essays.org b/org/essays.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d5c54b69ac --- /dev/null +++ b/org/essays.org @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +# 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 -- cgit 1.4.1