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• "It’s no wonder if this seems to the student a pointless exercise, because we’re now..."

  
  PCA2 — Authority: 488
  “It’s no wonder if this seems to the student a pointless exercise, because we’re now three steps removed from real work: the students are imitating English professors, who are imitating classical scholars, who are merely the inheritors of a tradition growing out of what was, 700 years ago, fascinating and ...
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• "Just as inviting people over forces you to clean up your apartment, writing something that other..."

  
  PCA2 — Authority: 488
  “Just as inviting people over forces you to clean up your apartment, writing something that other people will read forces you to think well. So it does matter to have an audience. The things I’ve written just for myself are no good. They tend to peter out. When I run into difficulties, I find I conclude with a few ...
  6 days ago

• "In a real essay, you don’t take a position and defend it. You notice a door that’s ajar,..."

  
  PCA2 — Authority: 488
  “In a real essay, you don’t take a position and defend it. You notice a door that’s ajar, and you open it and walk in to see what’s inside.” - Paul Graham, The Age of the Essay
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• The Age of the Essay

  
  PCA2 — Authority: 488
  The Age of the Essay : Really wonderful essay about how blogs and the internet have kind of ushered in a golden age of essays. Not school essays, but the old-fashioned 19th century essay in which someone discusses and considers an issue or topic. It’s also a great look at how dumb school essays are, and how little ...
  6 days ago

• Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 11/20/09

  
  MIPRO Unfiltered — Authority: 125
  It’s widely known in foodie circles that if you want to get an immediate read on how good a chef is, ask them to make scrambled eggs.  It’s a simple dish very  prone to subtle missteps by chefs of all calibers, and these missteps – or absence thereof – will be what determines how good the final product ...
  1 week ago

• The Genius of Droid’s Geeky Marketing

  
  901am — Authority: 524
  For days, I’ve been hearing Apple fanboys pan Verizon’s Motorola Droid ads as too geeky and unappealing for the mass market. I’ve been hearing fanboys claim that nongeeks can’t understand “open development”, that they’d be scared off by images of stealth bombers. Then I read an essay by Paul Graham ...
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• On Apple’s iPhone App Store rejection process

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 429
  If you ask Paul Graham, Apple’s App Store process is starting to affect the Apple brand. He bought a shiny new 27″ iMac, but : So I bought it, but I bought it, for the first time, with misgivings. I felt the way I’d feel buying something made in a country with a bad human rights record. That was new. In the ...
  1 week ago

• Paul Graham on What Startups Are Really Like

  
  Up and Running — Authority: 418
  If you’re serious about starting a business, take a few minutes and read Paul Graham’s web essay What Startups Are Really Like . Graham’s essay collection site is a valuable resource. He tends to post essays – a lot longer, and usually a lot more thoughtful, than a standard blog post — about once a month ...
  2 weeks ago

• Matt Talks About His Favorite Blogs

  
  THE Tech Scoop — Authority: 416
  Matt Mullenweg has told CNN the top 10 blogs that he recommends.To be on Matt’s list must mean that you’re quite ecclectic and thought provoking in your content delivery.Here is that golden list:Open… by Glyn Moody covers the application of open-source thinking to fields as wide-ranging as politics, genomics, ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Startups Are Really Like

  
  MIPRO Unfiltered — Authority: 125
  Paul Graham went back and asked the founders of all the startups he’s funded about what surprised them about starting a startup.  In other words, what did they wish they knew going in that they do now?  The list is intriguing.  Here are the biggest: Be careful with cofounders. Startups take over your life. ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Startups Are Really Like

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 155
  Ever wondered what it’s like to run a startup ? Read Paul Graham’s essay on the subject. I’ve been involved in startup companies before. Paul’s is a spot-on take on things.
  4 weeks ago

• Interzone 225

  
  Jim Steel's Cave of Doom — Authority: 421
  Artwork by Adam Tredowski Interzone 225 is out on November 12th in this jaw-dropping wrap-around cover and will feature fiction from Jason Sanford, Lavie Tidhar, Rebecca J. Payne, Colin Harvey, Shannon Page and Jay Lake, with non-fiction from David Langford, Tony Lee and Nick Lowe, and more artwork from Mark ...
  4 weeks ago

• "Successful new protocols are rare. There are only a handful of commonly used ones: TCP/IP (the..."

  
  Leftover Takeout — Authority: 433
  “Successful new protocols are rare. There are only a handful of commonly used ones: TCP/IP (the Internet), SMTP (email), HTTP (the web), and so on. So any new protocol is a big deal. Each one of those protocols has spawned many successful companies. Twitter will too.” - Y-Combinator’s Request For Startups: ...
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