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this is why I am not afraid of AI
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Joanne Molesky • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
if you could take a year off to work on something that probably wouldn't be important but would be really interesting, what would it be?
Paul Graham • The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
Probably the biggest lie told in schools, though, is that the way to succeed is through following "the rules." In fact most such rules are just hacks to manage large groups efficiently.
Paul Graham • Lies We Tell Kids
I should mention one sort of initial tactic that usually doesn't work: the Big Launch. I occasionally meet founders who seem to believe startups are projectiles rather than powered aircraft, and that they'll make it big if and only if they're launched with sufficient initial velocity. They want to launch simultaneously in 8 different publications, ... See more
Paul Graham • Do things that don't scale : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
In startups, the big winners are big to a degree that violates our expectations about variation. I don't know whether these expectations are innate or learned, but whatever the cause, we are just not prepared for the 1000x variation in outcomes that one finds in startup investing.
Paul Graham • Black Swan Farming
Paul Graham on why ambitious people *need* to be around other ambitious people:
Paul Stamatiou said that “responses here so far confirm my theory that… high-quality software products are only made by small teams”.