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Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent (Ep. 186)
conversationswithtyler.comThe way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. This kind of work is hard to convey in a research paper.
Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
What the Bubble Got Right
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Paul Graham on why ambitious people *need* to be around other ambitious people:
The most common unscalable thing founders have to do at the start is to recruit users manually. Nearly all startups have to. You can't wait for users to come to you. You have to go out and get them.
Paul Graham • Do Things that Don't Scale
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