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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
* 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