Paul Graham on how to do great work:
“Great work happens by focusing consistently on something you're genuinely interested in.” https://t.co/DPJYyeNqKC
Paul Graham on how to do great work: “Great work happens by focusing consistently on something you're genuinely interested in.” https://t.co/DPJYyeNqKC
July 2023
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.
Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise sh... See more
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.
Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise sh... See more
How to Do Great Work
What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for.
How to Do Great Work
Four steps: choose a field, learn enough to get to the frontier, notice gaps, explore promising ones. This is how practically everyone who's done great work has done it, from painters to physicists.
How to Do Great Work
To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire. You have to be able to say, at the end, wow, that's pretty cool.