# 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 * DONE 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 * DONE Five Questions about Language Design * DONE Being Popular * DONE Java's Cover * DONE Beating the Averages * DONE Lisp for Web-Based Applications * TODO Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp * TODO Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp * DONE Programming Bottom-Up * DONE This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California