- Major inspiration since 2004
- Lisp hacker
- Writer
- Entrepreneur
- VC
- Researcher
[Live Writing/Editing](https://byronm.com/13sentences.html)
https://x.com/paulg/status/1098330072900124678?lang=de
- [[Favorite Essays by Paul Graham (Essays)]]
→ [[Record and Replay Text Edits as Proof Of Creatorship]]
## Essays
- Epub: [[graham.epub]]
- Kindle: [[graham.mobi]]
- CSV: [[essays.csv]]
Programming Bottom-Up
[http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html)
**5**
Lisp for Web-Based Applications
2001-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/lwba.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/lwba.html)
**6**
Beating the Averages
2003-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html)
**7**
Java's Cover
2005-12-13
[http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html)
**8**
Being Popular
2001-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html)
**9**
Five Questions about Language Design
2007-02-15
[http://www.paulgraham.com/langdes.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/langdes.html)
**10**
The Roots of Lisp
2007-02-02
[http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html)
**11**
The Other Road Ahead
2001-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html)
**12**
What Made Lisp Different
2007-02-17
[http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html)
**13**
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
[http://www.paulgraham.com/noop.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/noop.html)
**14**
Taste for Makers
2002-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html)
**15**
What Languages Fix
2007-02-06
[http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html)
**16**
Succinctness is Power
2002-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html)
**17**
Revenge of the Nerds
2001-12-14
[http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html)
**18**
A Plan for Spam
2016-08-02
[http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html)
**19**
Design and Research
2003-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/desres.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/desres.html)
**20**
Better Bayesian Filtering
2003-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/better.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/better.html)
**21**
Why Nerds are Unpopular
2009-03-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html)
**22**
The Hundred-Year Language
2003-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html)
**23**
If Lisp is So Great
2003-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/iflisp.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/iflisp.html)
**24**
Hackers and Painters
2003-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html)
**25**
Filters that Fight Back
2003-11-16
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html)
**26**
What You Can't Say
2007-08-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html)
**27**
The Word "Hacker"
2004-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html)
**28**
How to Make Wealth
2006-01-26
[http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html)
**29**
Mind the Gap
2002-03-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html)
**30**
Great Hackers
2004-09-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html)
**31**
The Python Paradox
2014-12-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html)
**32**
The Age of the Essay
2004-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html)
**33**
What the Bubble Got Right
2004-04-30
[http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html)
**34**
A Version 1.0
2004-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/laundry.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/laundry.html)
**35**
Bradley's Ghost
2007-01-27
[http://www.paulgraham.com/polls.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/polls.html)
**36**
It's Charisma, Stupid
2007-02-12
[http://www.paulgraham.com/charisma.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/charisma.html)
**37**
Made in USA
2004-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html)
**38**
What You'll Wish You'd Known
2005-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html)
**39**
How to Start a Startup
2005-10-21
[http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html)
**40**
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
2007-02-14
[http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html)
**41**
Undergraduation
2005-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html)
**42**
Writing, Briefly
2007-10-16
[http://www.paulgraham.com/writing44.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/writing44.html)
**43**
Return of the Mac
2005-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html)
**44**
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
1995-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html)
**45**
The Submarine
2005-04-19
[http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html)
**46**
Hiring is Obsolete
2006-01-10
[http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html)
**47**
What Business Can Learn from Open Source
2008-12-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html)
**48**
After the Ladder
2006-01-11
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ladder.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ladder.html)
**49**
Inequality and Risk
2006-01-07
[http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html)
**50**
What I Did this Summer
2006-01-12
[http://www.paulgraham.com/sfp.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/sfp.html)
**51**
Ideas for Startups
2006-04-21
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html)
**52**
The Venture Capital Squeeze
2007-02-05
[http://www.paulgraham.com/vcsqueeze.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/vcsqueeze.html)
**53**
How to Fund a Startup
2020-03-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html)
**54**
Web 2.0
2005-09-30
[http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html)
**55**
Good and Bad Procrastination
2006-02-09
[http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html)
**56**
How to Do What You Love
2006-01-31
[http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html)
**57**
Why YC
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/whyyc.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/whyyc.html)
**58**
6,631,372
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/6631327.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/6631327.html)
**59**
Are Software Patents Evil?
2006-03-15
[http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html)
**60**
See Randomness
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html)
**61**
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
2007-01-30
[http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html)
**62**
How to Be Silicon Valley
2006-08-02
[http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html)
**63**
Why Startups Condense in America
2007-02-04
[http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html)
**64**
The Power of the Marginal
2004-03-15
[http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html)
**65**
The Island Test
2006-07-21
[http://www.paulgraham.com/island.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/island.html)
**66**
Copy What You Like
2006-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/copy.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/copy.html)
**67**
How to Present to Investors
2007-01-30
[http://www.paulgraham.com/investors.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/investors.html)
**68**
A Student's Guide to Startups
2020-08-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html)
**69**
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
2020-10-18
[http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html)
**70**
How Art Can Be Good
2007-01-26
[http://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html)
**71**
Learning from Founders
2007-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/foundersatwork.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/foundersatwork.html)
**72**
Is It Worth Being Wise?
2008-08-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html)
**73**
Why to Not Not Start a Startup
2009-08-28
[http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html)
**74**
Microsoft is Dead
2008-10-05
[http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html)
**75**
Two Kinds of Judgement
2020-02-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/judgement.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/judgement.html)
**76**
The Hacker's Guide to Investors
2007-02-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html)
**77**
An Alternative Theory of Unions
2007-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/unions.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/unions.html)
**78**
The Equity Equation
2007-07-17
[http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html)
**79**
Stuff
2008-07-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html)
**80**
Holding a Program in One's Head
2007-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/head.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/head.html)
**81**
How Not to Die
2007-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html)
**82**
News from the Front
2007-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html)
**83**
How to Do Philosophy
2008-08-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html)
**84**
The Future of Web Startups
2007-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html)
**85**
Why to Move to a Startup Hub
2007-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html)
**86**
Six Principles for Making New Things
1995-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/newthings.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/newthings.html)
**87**
Trolls
2008-08-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html)
**88**
A New Venture Animal
2013-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ycombinator.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ycombinator.html)
**89**
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
2008-08-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html)
**90**
How to Disagree
2009-06-07
[http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html)
**91**
Some Heroes
2008-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/heroes.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/heroes.html)
**92**
Why There Aren't More Googles
2008-08-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/googles.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/googles.html)
**93**
Be Good
2008-08-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html)
**94**
Lies We Tell Kids
2008-08-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html)
**95**
Disconnecting Distraction
2008-05-20
[http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html)
**96**
Cities and Ambition
2008-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html)
**97**
The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
2006-11-08
[http://www.paulgraham.com/prcmc.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/prcmc.html)
**98**
A Fundraising Survival Guide
2008-08-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/fundraising.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/fundraising.html)
**99**
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
2008-10-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html)
**100**
The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
2008-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/artistsship.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/artistsship.html)
**101**
The High-Res Society
2008-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/highres.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/highres.html)
**102**
Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
2008-12-07
[http://www.paulgraham.com/divergence.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/divergence.html)
**103**
After Credentials
2008-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html)
**104**
Keep Your Identity Small
2006-04-18
[http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html)
**105**
Startups in 13 Sentences
2009-05-13
[http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html)
**106**
What I've Learned from Hacker News
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html)
**107**
Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html)
**108**
Why TV Lost
2015-03-20
[http://www.paulgraham.com/convergence.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/convergence.html)
**109**
How to Be an Angel Investor
2005-01-05
[http://www.paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html)
**110**
Relentlessly Resourceful
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html)
**111**
Five Founders
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html)
**112**
The Founder Visa
2006-11-15
[http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html)
**113**
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
2009-04-03
[http://www.paulgraham.com/twitter.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/twitter.html)
**114**
A Local Revolution?
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/revolution.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/revolution.html)
**115**
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
2014-02-07
[http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html)
**116**
Ramen Profitable
2006-04-30
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html)
**117**
The Trouble with the Segway
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html)
**118**
What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/kate.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/kate.html)
**119**
The Anatomy of Determination
2009-09-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html)
**120**
The List of N Things
2009-09-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/nthings.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/nthings.html)
**121**
Post-Medium Publishing
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/publishing.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/publishing.html)
**122**
Persuade xor Discover
2009-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/discover.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/discover.html)
**123**
What Startups Are Really Like
2009-11-08
[http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html)
**124**
Apple's Mistake
1995-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html)
**125**
Organic Startup Ideas
2004-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html)
**126**
How to Lose Time and Money
2010-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html)
**127**
The Top Idea in Your Mind
2010-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html)
**128**
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
2010-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html)
**129**
The Future of Startup Funding
2010-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/future.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/future.html)
**130**
What Happened to Yahoo
2010-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html)
**131**
High Resolution Fundraising
2010-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/hiresfund.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/hiresfund.html)
**132**
Where to See Silicon Valley
2010-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/seesv.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/seesv.html)
**133**
The New Funding Landscape
2010-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/superangels.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/superangels.html)
**134**
What We Look for in Founders
2010-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html)
**135**
Tablets
2010-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html)
**136**
Founder Control
2010-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/control.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/control.html)
**137**
Subject: Airbnb
2011-03-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html)
**138**
The Patent Pledge
2011-04-27
[http://www.paulgraham.com/patentpledge.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/patentpledge.html)
**139**
Why Startup Hubs Work
2004-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/hubs.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/hubs.html)
**140**
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
1998-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/vw.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/vw.html)
**141**
Schlep Blindness
2012-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html)
**142**
A Word to the Resourceful
2012-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/word.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/word.html)
**143**
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
2012-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html)
**144**
Defining Property
2012-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/property.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/property.html)
**145**
How Y Combinator Started
2012-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ycstart.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ycstart.html)
**146**
Writing and Speaking
2012-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/speak.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/speak.html)
**147**
The Top of My Todo List
2012-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html)
**148**
Black Swan Farming
2012-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html)
**149**
Startup = Growth
2012-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html)
**150**
The Hardware Renaissance
2012-05-11
[http://www.paulgraham.com/hw.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/hw.html)
**151**
How to Get Startup Ideas
2012-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html)
**152**
Startup Investing Trends
2013-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/invtrend.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/invtrend.html)
**153**
Do Things that Don't Scale
2013-07-25
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html)
**154**
How to Convince Investors
2013-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/convince.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/convince.html)
**155**
Investor Herd Dynamics
2013-08-26
[http://www.paulgraham.com/herd.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/herd.html)
**156**
How to Raise Money
2014-03-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/fr.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/fr.html)
**157**
Before the Startup
2014-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html)
**158**
Mean People Fail
2014-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html)
**159**
The Fatal Pinch
2014-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/pinch.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/pinch.html)
**160**
How You Know
2014-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html)
**161**
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ecw.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ecw.html)
**162**
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
2014-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/95.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/95.html)
**163**
Don't Talk to Corp Dev
2015-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html)
**164**
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
2020-09-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/work.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/work.html)
**165**
The Ronco Principle
2015-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ronco.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ronco.html)
**166**
What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?
2015-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/altair.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/altair.html)
**167**
Change Your Name
2015-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html)
**168**
Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
2015-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/safe.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/safe.html)
**169**
Default Alive or Default Dead?
2015-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html)
**170**
Write Like You Talk
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/talk.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/talk.html)
**171**
A Way to Detect Bias
2020-09-10
[http://www.paulgraham.com/bias.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/bias.html)
**172**
Jessica Livingston
2015-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/jessica.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/jessica.html)
**173**
The Refragmentation
2016-04-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/re.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/re.html)
**174**
Economic Inequality
2015-04-28
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html)
**175**
Life is Short
2016-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html)
**176**
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
2016-04-06
[http://www.paulgraham.com/pgh.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/pgh.html)
**177**
The Risk of Discovery
2017-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/disc.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/disc.html)
**178**
Charisma / Power
2017-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/pow.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/pow.html)
**179**
General and Surprising
2017-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/sun.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/sun.html)
**180**
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
2019-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/genius.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/genius.html)
**181**
Novelty and Heresy
2019-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/nov.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/nov.html)
**182**
The Lesson to Unlearn
2020-09-25
[http://www.paulgraham.com/lesson.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/lesson.html)
**183**
Having Kids
2020-02-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/kids.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/kids.html)
**184**
Fashionable Problems
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/fp.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/fp.html)
**185**
The Two Kinds of Moderate
2019-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/mod.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/mod.html)
**186**
Haters
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html)
**187**
Being a Noob
2020-04-18
[http://www.paulgraham.com/noob.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/noob.html)
**188**
How to Write Usefully
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/useful.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/useful.html)
**189**
Coronavirus and Credibility
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/cred.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/cred.html)
**190**
Orthodox Privilege
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/orth.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/orth.html)
**191**
The Four Quadrants of Conformism
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/conformism.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/conformism.html)
**192**
Modeling a Wealth Tax
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/wtax.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/wtax.html)
**193**
Early Work
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/early.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/early.html)
**194**
How to Think for Yourself
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/think.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/think.html)
**195**
The Airbnbs
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnbs.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnbs.html)
**196**
Billionaires Build
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ace.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/ace.html)
**197**
Earnestness
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/earnest.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/earnest.html)
**198**
What I Worked On
2019-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/worked.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/worked.html)
**199**
Donate Unrestricted
2021-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/donate.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/donate.html)
**200**
Write Simply
2021-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/simply.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/simply.html)
**201**
How People Get Rich Now
2020-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/richnow.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/richnow.html)
**202**
The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty
2019-12-29
[http://www.paulgraham.com/real.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/real.html)
**203**
An NFT That Saves Lives
2021-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/nft.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/nft.html)
**204**
Crazy New Ideas
2021-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/newideas.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/newideas.html)
**205**
Fierce Nerds
2021-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/fn.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/fn.html)
**206**
A Project of One's Own
2021-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/own.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/own.html)
**207**
How to Work Hard
2021-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/hwh.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/hwh.html)
**208**
Weird Languages
2021-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/weird.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/weird.html)
**209**
Beyond Smart
2021-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/smart.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/smart.html)
**210**
Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?
2021-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/goodtaste.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/goodtaste.html)
**211**
Putting Ideas into Words
2022-01-01
[http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html)
**212**
Heresy
2022-03-18
[http://www.paulgraham.com/heresy.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/heresy.html)