Crazy how much impact PG essays had and still have. Turned out to be a really cheap and effective way of pulling in talent.
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Producing it, too. No formal education I've ever received had as much impact on my life trajectory in as little time as the Measurement and Leverage portion of his wealth essay. (Saving you the Google, peanut gallery: http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html )
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Your Blub essay +
@RichHickey got me curious about Lisp and today I primarily write Clojure for a living :) (even if it's a scant living at times). Thanks! -
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This essentially became the design brief for my consultancy and next two software companies, which made sure I didn’t fall into the attractive states of “back to salarymandom” or “back to bingo-shaped entrepreneurial endeavors.”
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what do you mean by bingo-shaped? simply trying to check boxes?
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That essay one of my favorite pages on the internet (along with https://zenhabits.net/breathe/ )
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"Europeans rode on the crest of a powerful new idea: allowing those who made a lot of money to keep it." Never thought beyond the Guns/Germs/Steel...
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