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Paul Graham • How to Get Startup Ideas
The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, where you can think anything you want, if you’re willing to risk the consequences.
Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
curiosity. Kid curiosity is broad and shallow; they ask why at
random about everything. In most adults this curiosity dries up
entirely. It has to: you can't get anything done if you're always
asking why about everything. But in ambitious adults, instead of
drying up, curiosity be... See more
What You'll Wish You'd Known
This is not just a good way to run a startup. It’s what a startup is. Venture capitalists know about this and have a phrase for it: barriers to entry. If you go to a VC with a new idea and ask him to invest in it, one of the first things he’ll ask is, how hard would this be for someone else to develop?
Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
The bigger question of what to do with your life is one of these problems with a hard core. There are important problems at the center, which tend to be hard, and less important, easier ones at the edges. So as well as the small, daily adjustments involved in working on a specific problem, you'll occasionally have to make big, lifetime-scale adjust
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