How to Do Great Work

 (paulgraham.com)

28 points | by tosh 2 hours ago

4 comments

  • dtj1123 23 minutes ago
    Genuine question, what work has Paul Graham done that can be classified as 'great'?
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    • baconbkr 6 minutes ago
      Creating YCombinator
  • gaigalas 24 minutes ago
    The people qualified to do great work probably don't need the advice. They most likely lack resources (like money or free time), not guidance.

    The people who would benefit from the advice (resourceful people full of free time that are doing nothing meaningful) will likely ignore it anyway.

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    • subygan 6 minutes ago
      this is one of the common conundrums of life. but for someone living in the grey, this stuff might push them over the edge to be great. that is the point of this article
  • wseqyrku 1 hour ago
    You can listen to this on youtube with pg's own voice which I find a pretty neat use of AI.
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    • staplar 7 minutes ago
      I mostly use Safari Listen feature, on my phone, to listen to it while walking. Pretty neat and doesn’t clutter my YouTube history.
    • conartist6 18 minutes ago
      Why? What's neat? To hear his thoughts the way he would voice them? But you're only pretending to...
    • iammjm 44 minutes ago
      Why not just read it out loud himself and record it?
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  • user3939382 44 minutes ago
    There’s something cringey about having a zillion dollars and then using your cash soapbox to bloviate to everyone about how to be great-like-me.
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    • condenser 41 minutes ago
      There's nothing "cringey" about sharing your own ideas in your own blog. What's cringey is this kind of pointless ankle-biting.