English essays by Paul Graham. Browse all posts in this section.

The Shape of the Essay Field 2025-06-01
Good Writing 2025-05-01
What to Do 2025-03-01
The Origins of Wokeness 2025-01-01
Writes and Write-Nots 2024-10-01
When To Do What You Love 2024-09-01
Founder Mode 2024-09-01
The Right Kind of Stubborn 2024-07-01
The Reddits 2024-03-01
The Best Essay 2024-03-01
How to Start Google 2024-03-01
Superlinear Returns 2023-10-01
How to Do Great Work 2023-07-01
How to Get New Ideas 2023-01-01
What You (Want to)* Want 2022-11-01
The Need to Read 2022-11-01
Alien Truth 2022-10-01
What I've Learned from Users 2022-09-01
Heresy 2022-04-01
Putting Ideas into Words 2022-02-01
Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste? 2021-11-01
Beyond Smart 2021-10-01
Weird Languages 2021-08-01
How to Work Hard 2021-06-01
A Project of One's Own 2021-06-01
Fierce Nerds 2021-05-01
Crazy New Ideas 2021-05-01
An NFT That Saves Lives 2021-05-01
The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty 2021-04-01
How People Get Rich Now 2021-04-01
Write Simply 2021-03-01
Donate Unrestricted 2021-03-01
What I Worked On 2021-02-01
The Airbnbs 2020-12-01
Earnest 2020-12-01
Ace 2020-12-01
How to Think for Yourself 2020-11-01
Early 2020-10-01
Modeling a Wealth Tax 2020-08-01
Orthodox Privilege 2020-07-01
Conformism 2020-07-01
Coronavirus and Credibility 2020-04-01
Useful 2020-02-01
Haters 2020-01-01
Being a Noob 2020-01-01
The Lesson to Unlearn 2019-12-01
Mod 2019-12-01
Having Kids 2019-12-01
Fashionable Problems 2019-12-01
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius 2019-11-01
Novelty and Heresy 2019-11-01
General and Surprising 2017-09-01
The Risk of Discovery 2017-01-01
Pow 2017-01-01
Prop62 2016-11-01
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub 2016-04-01
The Refragmentation 2016-01-01
Life is Short 2016-01-01
Economic Inequality 2016-01-01
Jessica Livingston 2015-11-01
Write Like You Talk 2015-10-01
Default Alive or Default Dead? 2015-10-01
A Way to Detect Bias 2015-10-01
Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice 2015-08-01
Change Your Name 2015-08-01
What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of? 2015-02-01
What Doesn't Seem Like Work? 2015-01-01
The Ronco Principle 2015-01-01
Corpdev 2015-01-01
The Fatal Pinch 2014-12-01
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In 2014-12-01
How You Know 2014-12-01
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World 2014-12-01
Mean 2014-11-01
Before the Startup 2014-10-01
How to Raise Money 2013-09-01
Investor Herd Dynamics 2013-08-01
How to Convince Investors 2013-08-01
Do Things that Don't Scale 2013-07-01
Startup Investing Trends 2013-06-01
How to Get Startup Ideas 2012-11-01
The Hardware Renaissance 2012-10-01
Startup = Growth 2012-09-01
Black Swan Farming 2012-09-01
The Top of My Todo List 2012-04-01
Writing and Speaking 2012-03-01
Property 2012-03-01
How Y Combinator Started 2012-03-01
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas 2012-03-01
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998 2012-01-01
Schlep Blindness 2012-01-01
A Word to the Resourceful 2012-01-01
Why Startup Hubs Work 2011-10-01
The Patent Pledge 2011-08-01
Airbnb 2011-03-01
Tablets 2010-12-01
Control 2010-12-01
Where to See Silicon Valley 2010-10-01
What We Look for in Founders 2010-10-01
The New Funding Landscape 2010-10-01
High Resolution Fundraising 2010-09-01
What Happened to Yahoo 2010-08-01
The Future of Startup Funding 2010-08-01
The Top Idea in Your Mind 2010-07-01
How to Lose Time and Money 2010-07-01
Addiction 2010-07-01
Organic Startup Ideas 2010-04-01
Apple's Mistake 2009-11-01
What Startups Are Really Like 2009-10-01
The List of N Things 2009-09-01
The Anatomy of Determination 2009-09-01
Post-Medium Publishing 2009-09-01
Persuade xor Discover 2009-09-01
What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley 2009-08-01
The Trouble with the Segway 2009-07-01
Ramen Profitable 2009-07-01
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule 2009-07-01
Why Twitter is a Big Deal 2009-04-01
The Founder Visa 2009-04-01
Five Founders 2009-04-01
A Local Revolution? 2009-04-01
Why TV Lost 2009-03-01
Relentlessly Resourceful 2009-03-01
How to Be an Angel Investor 2009-03-01
What I've Learned from Hacker News 2009-02-01
Startups in 13 Sentences 2009-02-01
Maybe 2009-02-01
Keep Your Identity Small 2009-02-01
The High-Res Society 2008-12-01
Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession? 2008-12-01
After Credentials 2008-12-01
The Other Half of 'Artists Ship' 2008-11-01
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy 2008-10-01
A Fundraising Survival Guide 2008-08-01
The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company 2008-07-01
Lies We Tell Kids 2008-05-01
Distraction 2008-05-01
Cities and Ambition 2008-05-01
Why There Aren't More Googles 2008-04-01
Some Heroes 2008-04-01
Be Good 2008-04-01
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss 2008-03-01
How to Disagree 2008-03-01
A New Venture Animal 2008-03-01
Trolls 2008-02-01
Six Principles for Making New Things 2008-02-01
Why to Move to a Startup Hub 2007-10-01
The Future of Web Startups 2007-10-01
News from the Front 2007-09-01
How to Do Philosophy 2007-09-01
How Not to Die 2007-08-01
Holding a Program in One's Head 2007-08-01
The Equity Equation 2007-07-01
Stuff 2007-07-01
An Alternative Theory of Unions 2007-05-01
Two Kinds of Judgement 2007-04-01
The Hacker's Guide to Investors 2007-04-01
Microsoft is Dead 2007-04-01
Not Not 2007-03-01
Is It Worth Being Wise? 2007-02-01
Learning from Founders 2007-01-01
How Art Can Be Good 2006-12-01
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups 2006-10-01
A Student's Guide to Startups 2006-10-01
How to Present to Investors 2006-08-01
The Island Test 2006-07-01
Copy What You Like 2006-07-01
The Power of the Marginal 2006-06-01
Why Startups Condense in America 2006-05-01
How to Be Silicon Valley 2006-05-01
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn 2006-04-01
See Randomness 2006-04-01
Why YC 2006-03-01
Are Software Patents Evil? 2006-03-01
6,631,372 2006-03-01
How to Do What You Love 2006-01-01
Good and Bad Procrastination 2005-12-01
Web 2.0 2005-11-01
The Venture Capital Squeeze 2005-11-01
How to Fund a Startup 2005-11-01
What I Did this Summer 2005-10-01
Ideas for Startups 2005-10-01
What Business Can Learn from Open Source 2005-08-01
Inequality 2005-08-01
After the Ladder 2005-08-01
Hiring is Obsolete 2005-05-01
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas 2005-04-01
The Submarine 2005-04-01
Writing, Briefly 2005-03-01
Undergraduation 2005-03-01
Return of the Mac 2005-03-01
How to Start a Startup 2005-03-01
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage 2005-03-01
What You'll Wish You'd Known 2005-01-01
Made in USA 2004-11-01
It's Charisma, Stupid 2004-11-01
Bradley's Ghost 2004-11-01
Laundry 2004-10-01
What the Bubble Got Right 2004-09-01
The Age of the Essay 2004-09-01
The Python Paradox 2004-08-01
Great Hackers 2004-07-01
Mind the Gap 2004-05-01
How to Make Wealth 2004-05-01
The Word 'Hacker' 2004-04-01
What You Can't Say 2004-01-01
Filters that Fight Back 2003-08-01
If Lisp is So Great 2003-05-01
Hackers and Painters 2003-05-01
The Hundred-Year Language 2003-04-01
Why Nerds are Unpopular 2003-02-01
Design and Research 2003-01-01
Better Bayesian Filtering 2003-01-01
A Plan for Spam 2002-08-01
Succinctness is Power 2002-05-01
Revenge of the Nerds 2002-05-01
Taste for Makers 2002-02-01
What Made Lisp Different 2001-12-01
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented 2001-10-01
The Other Road Ahead 2001-09-01
The Roots of Lisp 2001-05-01
Five Questions about Language Design 2001-05-01
Being Popular 2001-05-01
Lisp for Web-Based Applications 2001-04-01
Java's Cover 2001-04-01
Beating the Averages 2001-04-01
What Languages Fix 2001-01-01
RSS 2001-01-01
Welcome to Lisp 1995-01-01
Introduction to ANSI Common Lisp 1995-01-01
Progbot 1993-01-01
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