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Basecamp: The art of problem restatement We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- I'm having a tough time writing this newsletter. No particular reason, but an opening isn't coming to me as easily as it usually does. I've written and deleted 5 paragraphs ... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 656 | {
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Basecamp: Meetings you hate, and how to avoid them We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- Everywhere you look, people are ranting about meetings - hours of your life you won't get back, no time to get RealWork™️ done, videoconference fatigue… But just s... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 686 | {
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Basecamp: All about HEY! We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- <DATE_TIME>, a friend told me about their "burner email" account. It's an email address you use to sign up for all the stuff that makes you have an account, even though you don't really wan... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 393 | {
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Basecamp: Our best meet-up ever We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- <DATE_TIME>, we held our semi-annual meet-up in <LOCATION>. It was our best meet-up ever, which is saying something because we've been doing them at least twice a year for <DATE_TIME... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 954 | {
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Basecamp: Why do educators love using <LOCATION>? We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- It's <DATE_TIME>, and <DATE_TIME> is quickly coming to an end. At 37signals, that means <DATE_TIME> , and the beginning of Back to School season. You might not know... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 581 | {
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Basecamp: What's new at 37signals We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- A lot's been happening at 37signals (makers of <LOCATION> and HEY ) - here's some of what we've been up to recently. Features we've added Turn Off Reminders: Some people like being... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 357 | {
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Basecamp: It's (past) time to cut costs We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- It's not your imagination. Things have gotten pretty expensive. <DATE_TIME>, I paid $50 for take-out tacos! Tacos! Inflation has increased the cost of living by almost 20% in... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 793 | {
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Basecamp: And now for something completely new We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- We all love a great story, and it's even more exciting when you get to see it unfold before you, in real time. If you read nothing else <DATE_TIME>, this is one you wo... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 518 | {
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Basecamp: New Year, new Calendar We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- One of the things I love most about a new year is the chance to start fresh. Clear the old stuff out of the inbox. Turn a literal and figurative new page on the calendar. At 37signa... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 589 | {
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Basecamp: A little thanks We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- Before we take off for <DATE_TIME>, it's a good time to express our appreciation to everyone who is part of the 37signals community. We're really passionate about sharing our experiences -... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 586 | {
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Basecamp: Sign up for the Basecamp newsletter We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Join more than 150,000 people who get our newsletter. We'll share product updates, thoughts, new releases, and other tidbits we think you'll find interesting. Subscribe <DATE_TIME... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 217 | {
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Basecamp: What did you do in <DATE_TIME>? We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- Last week marked <DATE_TIME> Cycle 4 at 37signals. We typically organize our work in <DATE_TIME> timelines that are long enough to build something meaningful, but also shor... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 556 | {
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Basecamp: The power of writing We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- In a world dominated by tweets, sound bites, and quick updates, long-form writing is starting to feel like a thing of the past. But expanding your thoughts beyond five bullets on a sl... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 667 | {
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Basecamp: Quick wins and cool-downs We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- Can you believe it? Here we are at <DATE_TIME> of <DATE_TIME>. At 37signals, we've just completed <DATE_TIME> cycle of <DATE_TIME>, and are into an extended cool-down period . Th... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 422 | {
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Basecamp: Stacks, and how we did it We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- What does your desktop look like? Neat folders? Files everywhere? We don't make changes to the <LOCATION> home screen very often. It's a delicate balance between adding utility a... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 520 | {
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Basecamp: Time travel, leaving the cloud, and something useful we built We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Features we've added Time Travel & Markers in The Lineup Sometimes you're looking to zoom out and see the bigger picture. The Lineup is <LOCATION>'s way ... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 371 | {
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Basecamp: Consider the full problem We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hello there! <DATE_TIME>, I made a decision that was meant to increase efficiency and improve my quality of life at work. Because I didn't fully consider the problem I was trying to solve, ... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 540 | {
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Basecamp: Hire when it hurts… or don't We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- We don't hire often at 37signals. In fact, we only hire when it hurts. And lately our <NRP> team in <LOCATION> has been hurting for a third member. Our Ops team is responsible... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 546 | {
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Basecamp: You need less than you think We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- When you're running a small business, you may think you need to have "all the things" when it comes to documentation. But you probably need less legal overhead than you think.... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 698 | {
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Basecamp: New Cycle, new Kickoff We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- I've had a few conversations lately about how to plan and organize work, and not just in product development, but all areas - marketing, customer support, operations. Shape Up is fa... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 527 | {
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Basecamp: Going, and staying, remote We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- Seems like every day there's a new report out, confirming what we already know - remote work is better for getting work done, getting the best people and giving people the chanc... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 527 | {
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Basecamp: Rules of the road We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- We just finished updating the 37signals employee handbook . Yes, I know. You'd rather read the dictionary than an employee handbook. They're usually full of dense policies that are hard ... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 707 | {
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Basecamp: How's your work ethic? We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Dear 37signals, My boss is super passionate about our work, which is awesome, but it's like he's got a turbo button stuck on "<PERSON>." Everything's "top priority," and he's all about those <... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 558 | {
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Basecamp: What's next? We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- Sometimes you have too many good ideas. But sometimes you might be waiting for inspiration to strike. How long do you wait for that <PERSON> muse to show up? We'd say, don't wait. Get inspire... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 751 | {
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Basecamp: Shape Up - it's not just for products We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Hey there- We talk about Shape Up a lot. After all, it's the way we work and central to how we're able to ship a lot of products and features quickly, with small teams. Shape Up... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 750 | {
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Basecamp: Get help from the <LOCATION> support team We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine There are no stupid questions. For pre-sales questions, existing customers who need a hand, or other inquiries, contact us and we'll get back to you within <DATE_TIME>. What... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 289 | {
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Basecamp: Mastering Basecamp We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Ready to get started with Basecamp? Basecamp Basics Overview School is in session! Get a preview of the Basecamp Basics series - think of this as your class syllabus. Understanding the Home Screen... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 848 | {
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Basecamp: Basecamp Help We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Basecamp 3 & 4 Basecamp 2 Basecamp Classic "Extremely user friendly" "Truly amazing!" "A godsend for our org" "Simple, quick, powerful" "So glad I found Basecamp" "The perfect solution" "Really great" ... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.71 | 142 | {
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Basecamp: New in Basecamp We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine A collection of new features we've just launched in <LOCATION>! Hill Charts let you track your to-do lists from figuring things out to completion. With the new <LOCATION>, you can now see all your Hi... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 972 | {
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Basecamp: Where we came from We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Born out of desperate necessity to stop embarrassing ourselves in front of our clients, the story of how <LOCATION> was born is likely your story, too. Hey there - I'm <PERSON>, one of the co-foun... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 603 | {
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Basecamp: Basecamp stands with the underdogs We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Freelancer? Underfunded non-profit? Small team feeling stuck in a large enterprise? Start-up battling established competitors? You're our people. What do they got? A big team, lots... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 310 | {
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Basecamp: Basecamp for Small Business We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Small businesses are our favorite businesses. For <DATE_TIME>, we've kept our company small, sharp, and profitable - on purpose. Because small is not less than. It's greater than. It's fa... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 660 | {
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Basecamp: Kill overkill We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Amass what you need, but ignore even more. Business is often seen as the art of acquisition. Acquiring talent, customers, revenue, profits, mindshare, marketshare. Building and growing requires consump... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 522 | {
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Basecamp: Leaving <LOCATION> Isn't For Everyone We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine They promised the cloud would be cheaper, faster, and easier. For us, the savings never materialized and the team never shrunk. After using clouds from both Amazon and Google ex... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 338 | {
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Basecamp: Before & After We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine We asked our customers what it was like before they used Basecamp and how it's improved after switching. Wow, what a difference! Our customers tried everything before switching to Basecamp; email, spr... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,649 | {
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Basecamp: See where projects really stand with Hill Charts We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine A Basecamp exclusive way to track progress. For <DATE_TIME> we've used Basecamp To-dos to track our own work here at Basecamp. But for bigger projects with dozens or ... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 778 | {
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Basecamp: JUST LET ME DO MY JOB We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine JUST LET ME DO MY JOB. When we released <LOCATION> over <DATE_TIME>, we needed a better way to manage projects and progress as a team. <PERSON>, chat, spreadsheets, calls, scattered documents, ... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 399 | {
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Basecamp: Basecamp Integrations We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine Get more out of <LOCATION> with these 3rd party tools! Are you a developer? Integrate your product with <LOCATION> . Use standards-based drivers to connect to Basecamp data in any <LOCATION> to... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,366 | {
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Basecamp: Basecamp is for everyone We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine We're working hard to make sure Basecamp is accessible to anyone who'd like to use it and in step with the latest web guidelines. Our approach to accessibility <NRP> and accessible design is... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 386 | {
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Basecamp: Get more out of your Basecamp experience We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine You're invited to the <LOCATION> community: the place where long-time users and folks new to the platform exchange ideas about improving the way they work. Meet people just l... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 260 | {
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Basecamp: Basecamp discounts for teachers, students, and non-profits We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine We offer free accounts for teachers and students, and discounted accounts for non-profits. For education (K-12 or University) Are you a teacher or student a... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 317 | {
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Basecamp: The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone ... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 2,016 | {
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Basecamp: The 37signals Guide to Making Decisions We'd like to use cookies to help understand if our ads are working or not. No Yes, that's fine A company is essentially two things: a group of people and a collection of decisions. How those people make these decisions is the art of running a business. This guide shows ... | basecamp | for-profit | 0.95 | 689 | {
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Naval Podcast Apple Email <LOCATION> YouTube Aug 6 2025 We talked about in the past how "Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true." And <PERSON> made a song out of it. <PERSON> , God bless him. And I think that's absolutely true. More Aug 3 2025 We're hiring an editor ... | naval | for-profit | 0.95 | 653 | {
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<PERSON> New: Good Writing | Founder <PERSON> to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . © mmxxv pg | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.11 | 20 | {
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Arc Arc is a new dialect of Lisp we're working on. You can find an early release and ask questions at <URL> . The Arc community is very newbie-friendly, because all the users are newbies to some extent. To get an idea of where we eventually hope to take <PERSON>, see Being Popular and The Hundred-Year Language . Forum ... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.47 | 94 | {
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<LOCATION> <DATE_TIME> <LOCATION> is a spec for a new dialect of Lisp, written in itself. This should sound familiar to people who know about Lisp's origins, because it's the way Lisp began . It consists of two text files meant to be read in parallel: a guide to the Bel language , and the <PERSON> source . For those wh... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.595 | 118 | {
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Lisp The Roots of Lisp What Made Lisp Different A Lisp Startup Arc: A New Lisp Lisp Code Lisp Links Lisp History Lisp Quotes Lisp FAQ | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.13 | 26 | {
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Spam A Plan for Spam Plan for Spam FAQ Better Bayesian Filtering So Far, So Good Filters that Fight Back Will Filters Kill Spam? Stopping Spam Spam is Different Filters vs. Blacklists The Destiny of Blacklists Getting Past Filters Spam Conference Filtering Research Spam Resources Spam Archives Spam Links | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.245 | 49 | {
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Responses "The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." <PERSON> Founders' Accents What I Didn't Say Female Founders "I can be tricked by anyone who looks like <PERSON>." | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.2 | 38 | {
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FAQs General FAQ Programming FAQ Startup FAQ Arc FAQ Lisp FAQ Viaweb FAQ Plan for Spam FAQ FFB FAQ | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.0475 | 19 | {
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RAQs These are questions that I've only been asked once or twice, but which seem especially interesting. Why don't more painters have hacking jobs? Probably for the same reason that few hackers take up painting. They both seem from the outside like great abstruse mysteries. You can learn great abstruse mysteries as a t... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 978 | {
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<PERSON> is a programmer, writer, and investor. In <DATE_TIME>, he and <PERSON> started <PERSON>, the first software as a service company. <PERSON> was acquired by Yahoo in <DATE_TIME>, where it became Yahoo Store. In <DATE_TIME> he started publishing essays on <URL> , which now gets around 25 million page views per ye... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.86 | 165 | {
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Having Kids <DATE_TIME> Before I had kids, I was afraid of having kids. Up to that point I felt about kids the way the young <PERSON> felt about living virtuously. I'd have been sad to think I'd never have children. But did I want them now? No. If I had kids, I'd become a parent, and parents, as I'd known since I was a... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,527 | {
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How to <PERSON> and Money <DATE_TIME> When we sold our startup in <DATE_TIME> I suddenly got a lot of money. I now had to think about something I hadn't had to think about before: how not to lose it. I knew it was possible to go from rich to poor, just as it was possible to go from poor to rich. But while I'd spent a l... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 665 | {
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The Shape of the Essay Field <DATE_TIME> An essay has to tell people something they don't already know. But there are three different reasons people might not know something, and they yield three very different kinds of essays. One reason people won't know something is if it's not important to know. That doesn't mean i... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 776 | {
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Good Writing <DATE_TIME> There are two senses in which writing can be good: it can sound good, and the ideas can be right. It can have nice, flowing sentences, and it can draw correct conclusions about important things. It might seem as if these two kinds of good would be unrelated, like the speed of a car and the colo... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,653 | {
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What to Do <DATE_TIME> What should one do? That may seem a strange question, but it's not meaningless or unanswerable. It's the sort of question kids ask before they learn not to ask big questions. I only came across it myself in the process of investigating something else. But once I did, I thought I should at least t... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,594 | {
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Writes and Write-Nots October 2024 I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in <DATE_TIME> there won't be many people who can write. One of the strangest things you learn if you're a writer is how many people have trouble writing. Doctors know how many peop... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 551 | {
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When To Do What You Love <DATE_TIME> There's some debate about whether it's a good idea to "follow your passion." In fact the question is impossible to answer with a simple yes or no. Sometimes you should and sometimes you shouldn't, but the border between should and shouldn't is very complicated. The only way to give ... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,559 | {
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The Reddits <DATE_TIME> I met the <NRP> before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it. YC grew out of a talk I gave to the Harvard Computer Society (the undergrad computer club) about how to start a startup. Everyone else in the audience was probably local, but <PERSON> and <PE... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,143 | {
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The Best Essay March 2024 Despite its title this isn't meant to be the best essay. My goal here is to figure out what the best essay would be like. It would be well-written, but you can write well about any topic. What made it special would be what it was about. Obviously some topics would be better than others. It pro... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 4,374 | {
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How to Get New Ideas January 2023 ( Someone fed my essays into GPT to make something that could answer questions based on them, then asked it where good ideas come from. The answer was ok, but not what I would have said. This is what I would have said.) The way to get new ideas is to notice anomalies: what seems strang... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.765 | 153 | {
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The Need to Read November 2022 In the science fiction books I read as a kid, reading had often been replaced by some more efficient way of acquiring knowledge. Mysterious "tapes" would load it into one's brain like a program being loaded into a computer. That sort of thing is unlikely to happen anytime soon. Not just b... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 467 | {
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What You (Want to)* Want <DATE_TIME> Since I was about 9 I've been puzzled by the apparent contradiction between being made of matter that behaves in a predictable way, and the feeling that I could choose to do whatever I wanted. At the time I had a self-interested motive for exploring the question. At that age (like m... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 521 | {
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Alien Truth <DATE_TIME> If there were intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, they'd share certain truths in common with us. The truths of mathematics would be the same, because they're true by definition. Ditto for the truths of physics; the mass of a carbon atom would be the same on their planet. But I think we... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 679 | {
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Putting Ideas into Words <DATE_TIME> Writing about something, even something you know well, usually shows you that you didn't know it as well as you thought. Putting ideas into words is a severe test. The first words you choose are usually wrong; you have to rewrite sentences over and over to get them exactly right. An... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,176 | {
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Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste? <DATE_TIME> (This essay is derived from a talk at the Cambridge Union.) When I was a kid, I'd have said there wasn't. My father told me so. Some people like some things, and other people like other things, and who's to say who's right? It seemed so obvious that there was no such thi... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,129 | {
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Weird Languages <DATE_TIME> When people say that in their experience all programming languages are basically equivalent, they're making a statement not about languages but about the kind of programming they've done. 99.5% of programming consists of gluing together calls to library functions. All popular languages are e... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 346 | {
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A Project of One's Own June 2021 <DATE_TIME>, on the way home from school, my <DATE_TIME> son told me he couldn't wait to get home to write more of the story he was working on. This made me as happy as anything I've heard him say - not just because he was excited about his story, but because he'd discovered this way of... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 2,513 | {
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Fierce Nerds <DATE_TIME> Most people think of nerds as quiet, diffident people. In ordinary social situations they are - as quiet and diffident as the star quarterback would be if he found himself in the middle of a physics symposium. And for the same reason: they are fish out of water. But the apparent diffidence of n... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,252 | {
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An NFT That Saves Lives <DATE_TIME> Noora Health , a nonprofit I've supported for <DATE_TIME>, just launched a new NFT. It has a dramatic name, Save Thousands of Lives , because that's what the proceeds will do. <PERSON> has been saving lives for <DATE_TIME>. They run programs in hospitals in <LOCATION> to teach new mo... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 318 | {
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The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty <DATE_TIME> When intellectuals talk about the death penalty, they talk about things like whether it's permissible for the state to take someone's life, whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent, and whether more death sentences are given to some groups than others. But in pr... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 769 | {
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How People Get Rich Now <DATE_TIME> since <DATE_TIME>, Forbes magazine has published a list of the richest <NRP>. If we compare the 100 richest people in <DATE_TIME> to the 100 richest in <DATE_TIME>, we notice some big differences. In <DATE_TIME> the most common source of wealth was inheritance. Of the 100 richest peo... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 2,554 | {
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Write Simply <DATE_TIME> I try to write using ordinary words and simple sentences. That kind of writing is easier to read, and the easier something is to read, the more deeply readers will engage with it. The less energy they expend on your prose, the more they'll have left for your ideas. And the further they'll read.... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 512 | {
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Donate Unrestricted <DATE_TIME> The secret curse of the nonprofit world is restricted donations. If you haven't been involved with nonprofits, you may never have heard this phrase before. But if you have been, it probably made you wince. Restricted donations mean donations where the donor limits what can be done with t... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 487 | {
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Billionaires Build <DATE_TIME> As I was deciding what to write about next, I was surprised to find that two separate essays I'd been planning to write were actually the same. The first is about how to ace your Y Combinator interview. There has been so much nonsense written about this topic that I've been meaning for <D... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 3,419 | {
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The Airbnbs <DATE_TIME> To celebrate Airbnb's IPO and to help future founders, I thought it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb. What was special about the <PERSON> was how earnest they were. They did nothing half-way, and we could sense this even in the interview. Sometimes after we interviewed a ... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,074 | {
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How to Think for Yourself <DATE_TIME> There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be correct. Your ideas have to be both correct and novel. You can't publish papers saying things other people already... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 3,483 | {
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Early Work <DATE_TIME> One of the biggest things holding people back from doing great work is the fear of making something lame. And this fear is not an irrational one. Many great projects go through a stage early on where they don't seem very impressive, even to their creators. You have to push through this stage to r... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 2,508 | {
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Modeling a Wealth Tax <DATE_TIME> Some politicians are proposing to introduce wealth taxes in addition to income and capital gains taxes. Let's try modeling the effects of various levels of wealth tax to see what they would mean in practice for a startup founder. Suppose you start a successful startup in your <DATE_TIM... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 437 | {
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Orthodox Privilege July 2020 "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." <PERSON> There has been a lot of talk about privilege lately. Although the concept is overused, there is som... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 642 | {
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Coronavirus and Credibility <DATE_TIME> I recently saw a video of TV journalists and politicians confidently saying that the coronavirus would be no worse than the flu. What struck me about it was not just how mistaken they seemed, but how daring. How could they feel safe saying such things? The answer, I realized, is ... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 244 | {
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How to Write Usefully <DATE_TIME> What should an essay be? Many people would say persuasive. That's what a lot of us were taught essays should be. But I think we can aim for something more ambitious: that an essay should be useful. To start with, that means it should be correct. But it's not enough merely to be correct... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 2,865 | {
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Being a Noob <DATE_TIME> When I was young, I thought old people had everything figured out. Now that I'm old, I know this isn't true. I constantly feel like a noob. It seems like I'm always talking to some startup working in a new field I know nothing about, or reading a book about a topic I don't understand well enoug... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 391 | {
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Haters <DATE_TIME> (I originally intended this for startup founders, who are often surprised by the attention they get as their companies grow, but it applies equally to anyone who becomes famous.) If you become sufficiently famous, you'll acquire some fans who like you too much. These people are sometimes called "fanb... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 1,387 | {
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The Two Kinds of Moderate <DATE_TIME> There are two distinct ways to be politically moderate: on purpose and by accident. Intentional moderates are trimmers, deliberately choosing a position mid-way between the extremes of right and left. Accidental moderates end up in the middle, on average, because they make up their... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 665 | {
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Fashionable Problems <DATE_TIME> I've seen the same pattern in many different fields: even though lots of people have worked hard in the field, only a small fraction of the space of possibilities has been explored, because they've all worked on similar things. Even the smartest, most imaginative people are surprisingly... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 196 | {
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Novelty and Heresy <DATE_TIME> If you discover something new, there's a significant chance you'll be accused of some form of heresy. To discover new things, you have to work on ideas that are good but non-obvious; if an idea is obviously good, other people are probably already working on it. One common way for a good i... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 265 | {
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The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius November 2019 Everyone knows that to do great work you need both natural ability and determination. But there's a third ingredient that's not as well understood: an obsessive interest in a particular topic. To explain this point I need to burn my reputation with some group of people, and... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 2,627 | {
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General and Surprising <DATE_TIME> The most valuable insights are both general and surprising. F = ma for example. But general and surprising is a hard combination to achieve. That territory tends to be picked clean, precisely because those insights are so valuable. Ordinarily, the best that people can do is one withou... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 441 | {
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Charisma / Power <DATE_TIME> People who are powerful but uncharismatic will tend to be disliked. Their power makes them a target for criticism that they don't have the charisma to disarm. That was <PERSON> problem. It also tends to be a problem for any CEO who is more of a builder than a schmoozer. And yet the builder-... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.62 | 122 | {
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The Risk of Discovery <DATE_TIME> Because biographies of famous scientists tend to edit out their mistakes, we underestimate the degree of risk they were willing to take. And because anything a famous scientist did that wasn't a mistake has probably now become the conventional wisdom, those choices don't seem risky eit... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 220 | {
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How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub <DATE_TIME> (This is a talk I gave at an event called Opt412 in <LOCATION>. Much of it will apply to other towns. But not all, because as I say in the talk, <LOCATION> has some important advantages over most would-be startup hubs.) What would it take to make <LOCATION> into a startu... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 2,577 | {
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Economic Inequality <DATE_TIME>, economic inequality in the <LOCATION> has increased dramatically. And in particular, the rich have gotten a lot richer. Nearly everyone who writes about the topic says that economic inequality should be decreased. I'm interested in this question because I was one of the founders of a co... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 3,432 | {
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The Refragmentation January 2016 One advantage of being old is that you can see change happen in your lifetime. A lot of the change I've seen is fragmentation. <LOCATION> politics is much more polarized than it used to be. Culturally we have ever less common ground. The creative class flocks to a handful of happy citie... | paulgraham | for-profit | 0.95 | 7,125 | {
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