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EssayJul 1, 2006

Copy What You Like

Paul Graham

EssayJun 1, 2006

The Power of the Marginal

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2006

How to Be Silicon Valley

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2006

Why Startups Condense in America

Paul Graham

EssayApr 1, 2006

The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

Paul Graham

EssayApr 1, 2006

See Randomness

Paul Graham

EssayMar 1, 2006

Why YC

Paul Graham

EssayMar 1, 2006

6,631,372

Paul Graham

EssayMar 1, 2006

Are Software Patents Evil?

Paul Graham

EssayJan 1, 2006

How to Do What You Love

Paul Graham

EssayDec 1, 2005

Good and Bad Procrastination

Paul Graham

EssayNov 1, 2005

The Venture Capital Squeeze

Paul Graham

EssayNov 1, 2005

How to Fund a Startup

Paul Graham

EssayNov 1, 2005

Web 2.0

Paul Graham

EssayOct 1, 2005

Ideas for Startups

Paul Graham

EssayOct 1, 2005

What I Did this Summer

Paul Graham

EssayAug 1, 2005

Inequality and Risk

Paul Graham

EssayAug 1, 2005

After the Ladder

Paul Graham

EssayAug 1, 2005

What Business Can Learn from Open Source

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2005

Hiring is Obsolete

Paul Graham

EssayApr 1, 2005

Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas

Paul Graham

EssayApr 1, 2005

The Submarine

Paul Graham

EssayMar 1, 2005

Undergraduation

Paul Graham

EssayMar 1, 2005

Return of the Mac

Paul Graham

EssayMar 1, 2005

How to Start a Startup

Paul Graham

EssayMar 1, 2005

A Unified Theory of VC Suckage

Paul Graham

EssayMar 1, 2005

Writing, Briefly

Paul Graham

EssayJan 1, 2005

What You'll Wish You'd Known

Paul Graham

EssayNov 1, 2004

It's Charisma, Stupid

Paul Graham

EssayNov 1, 2004

Made in USA

Paul Graham

EssayNov 1, 2004

Bradley's Ghost

Paul Graham

EssayOct 1, 2004

A Version 1.0

Paul Graham

EssaySep 1, 2004

The Age of the Essay

Paul Graham

EssaySep 1, 2004

What the Bubble Got Right

Paul Graham

EssayAug 1, 2004

The Python Paradox

Paul Graham

EssayJul 1, 2004

Great Hackers

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2004

Mind the Gap

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2004

How to Make Wealth

Paul Graham

EssayApr 1, 2004

The Word "Hacker"

Paul Graham

EssayJan 1, 2004

What You Can't Say

Paul Graham

EssayAug 1, 2003

Filters that Fight Back

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2003

If Lisp is So Great

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2003

Hackers and Painters

Paul Graham

EssayApr 1, 2003

The Hundred-Year Language

Paul Graham

EssayFeb 1, 2003

Why Nerds are Unpopular

Paul Graham

EssayJan 1, 2003

Better Bayesian Filtering

Paul Graham

EssayJan 1, 2003

Design and Research

Paul Graham

EssayAug 1, 2002

A Plan for Spam

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2002

Revenge of the Nerds

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2002

Succinctness is Power

Paul Graham

EssayFeb 1, 2002

Taste for Makers

Paul Graham

EssayDec 1, 2001

What Made Lisp Different

Paul Graham

EssaySep 1, 2001

The Other Road Ahead

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2001

Being Popular

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2001

Five Questions about Language Design

Paul Graham

EssayMay 1, 2001

The Roots of Lisp

Paul Graham

EssayApr 1, 2001

Beating the Averages

Paul Graham

EssayApr 1, 2001

Lisp for Web-Based Applications

Paul Graham

EssayApr 1, 2001

Java's Cover

Paul Graham

EssayJun 1, 1998

Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998

Paul Graham