English essays by Paul Graham. Browse all posts in this section.
- 6,631,372
- A Fundraising Survival Guide
- A Local Revolution?
- A New Venture Animal
- A Plan for Spam
- A Project of One's Own
- A Student's Guide to Startups
- A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
- A Way to Detect Bias
- A Word to the Resourceful
- Ace
- Addiction
- After Credentials
- After the Ladder
- Airbnb
- Alien Truth
- An Alternative Theory of Unions
- An NFT That Saves Lives
- Apple's Mistake
- Are Software Patents Evil?
- Be Good
- Beating the Averages
- Before the Startup
- Being a Noob
- Being Popular
- Better Bayesian Filtering
- Beyond Smart
- Black Swan Farming
- Bradley's Ghost
- Change Your Name
- Cities and Ambition
- Conformism
- Control
- Copy What You Like
- Coronavirus and Credibility
- Corpdev
- Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
- Crazy New Ideas
- Default Alive or Default Dead?
- Design and Research
- Distraction
- Do Things that Don't Scale
- Donate Unrestricted
- Early
- Earnest
- Economic Inequality
- Fashionable Problems
- Fierce Nerds
- Filters that Fight Back
- Five Founders
- Five Questions about Language Design
- Founder Mode
- Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
- General and Surprising
- Good and Bad Procrastination
- Good Writing
- Great Hackers
- Hackers and Painters
- Haters
- Having Kids
- Heresy
- High Resolution Fundraising
- Hiring is Obsolete
- Holding a Program in One's Head
- How Art Can Be Good
- How Not to Die
- How People Get Rich Now
- How to Be an Angel Investor
- How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
- How to Be Silicon Valley
- How to Convince Investors
- How to Disagree
- How to Do Great Work
- How to Do Philosophy
- How to Do What You Love
- How to Fund a Startup
- How to Get New Ideas
- How to Get Startup Ideas
- How to Lose Time and Money
- How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
- How to Make Wealth
- How to Present to Investors
- How to Raise Money
- How to Start a Startup
- How to Start Google
- How to Think for Yourself
- How to Work Hard
- How Y Combinator Started
- How You Know
- Ideas for Startups
- If Lisp is So Great
- Inequality
- Introduction to ANSI Common Lisp
- Investor Herd Dynamics
- Is It Worth Being Wise?
- Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?
- It's Charisma, Stupid
- Java's Cover
- Jessica Livingston
- Keep Your Identity Small
- Laundry
- Learning from Founders
- Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
- Lies We Tell Kids
- Life is Short
- Lisp for Web-Based Applications
- Made in USA
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
- Maybe
- Mean
- Microsoft is Dead
- Mind the Gap
- Mod
- Modeling a Wealth Tax
- News from the Front
- Not Not
- Novelty and Heresy
- Organic Startup Ideas
- Orthodox Privilege
- Persuade xor Discover
- Post-Medium Publishing
- Pow
- Progbot
- Prop62
- Property
- Putting Ideas into Words
- Ramen Profitable
- Relentlessly Resourceful
- Return of the Mac
- Revenge of the Nerds
- RSS
- Schlep Blindness
- See Randomness
- Six Principles for Making New Things
- Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
- Some Heroes
- Startup = Growth
- Startup Investing Trends
- Startups in 13 Sentences
- Stuff
- Succinctness is Power
- Superlinear Returns
- Tablets
- Taste for Makers
- The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
- The Age of the Essay
- The Airbnbs
- The Anatomy of Determination
- The Best Essay
- The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
- The Equity Equation
- The Fatal Pinch
- The Founder Visa
- The Future of Startup Funding
- The Future of Web Startups
- The Hacker's Guide to Investors
- The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
- The Hardware Renaissance
- The High-Res Society
- The Hundred-Year Language
- The Island Test
- The Lesson to Unlearn
- The List of N Things
- The Need to Read
- The New Funding Landscape
- The Origins of Wokeness
- The Other Half of 'Artists Ship'
- The Other Road Ahead
- The Patent Pledge
- The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
- The Power of the Marginal
- The Python Paradox
- The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty
- The Reddits
- The Refragmentation
- The Right Kind of Stubborn
- The Risk of Discovery
- The Ronco Principle
- The Roots of Lisp
- The Shape of the Essay Field
- The Submarine
- The Top Idea in Your Mind
- The Top of My Todo List
- The Trouble with the Segway
- The Venture Capital Squeeze
- The Word 'Hacker'
- Trolls
- Two Kinds of Judgement
- Undergraduation
- Useful
- Web 2.0
- Weird Languages
- Welcome to Lisp
- What Business Can Learn from Open Source
- What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
- What Happened to Yahoo
- What I Did this Summer
- What I Worked On
- What I've Learned from Hacker News
- What I've Learned from Users
- What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley
- What Languages Fix
- What Made Lisp Different
- What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?
- What Startups Are Really Like
- What the Bubble Got Right
- What to Do
- What We Look for in Founders
- What You (Want to)* Want
- What You Can't Say
- What You'll Wish You'd Known
- When To Do What You Love
- Where to See Silicon Valley
- Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
- Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
- Why Nerds are Unpopular
- Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
- Why Startup Hubs Work
- Why Startups Condense in America
- Why There Aren't More Googles
- Why to Move to a Startup Hub
- Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
- Why TV Lost
- Why Twitter is a Big Deal
- Why YC
- Write Like You Talk
- Write Simply
- Writes and Write-Nots
- Writing and Speaking
- Writing, Briefly
- You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss