@paulg working 1 day a week at YC as a part time YC partner didn't feel like work - in the end that is how I decided to join full time
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@mwseibel Whereupon you discovered reading applications!
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@paulg I love you but your writing can be depressing "Want success? Do what you were born to do. Youd rather something else? No hope…" -
@ChrisDzoba You don't have to do the sort of work you're best suited for. -
@paulg No but where does that leave you? Worse odds at big success in work. Ideally we could be what we wanted. Maybe just my 90s upbringing -
@ChrisDzoba why would you want to do something you're not suited for? Being good at something is more fun. -
@typesfast To provide for people you care for, to protect your future self, to be remembered. Being good is fun if it creates opportunity
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@paulg I like building bikes, since I was a young boy. So easy to spend a whole day in the garage and lose track of time.#startupmechanicThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Ah, Pwllheli. Where my parents met. And at 13, programming my C64, I knew what I wanted to do.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg This is the hard truth about programming.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg: What Doesn't Seem Like Work? http://paulgraham.com/work.html ” great advice hereThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg your world view, those conflicting interests could be resolved. And so the person is stuck with unresolved internal dilemma -
@ChrisDzoba@paulg Crochet is just one concrete match for the underlying factors. One has to keep asking _why_ it is so enjoyable?
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@paulg Just read this blog! I wonder what to do when you know what it is that will never feel like work but the path there is ten years longThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg: What Doesn't Seem Like Work? http://paulgraham.com/work.html ”#work#career#passionThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg: What Doesn't Seem Like Work? http://paulgraham.com/work.html ” -- shouldn't we just acknowledge that this is a privilege of wealth?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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"stranger your tastes seem to other ppl stronger evidence they prob are of what you shld do."
#insighttoliveby@paulg http://paulgraham.com/work.htmlThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Awesome piece
@paulg. Reminded me of Uni days doing my friends programming assignments coz I enjoyed the challenge making each 1 different.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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