25 points | by tosh 3 hours ago ago
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Genuine question, what work has Paul Graham done that can be classified as 'great'?
Creating YCombinator
The people qualified to do great work probably don't need the advice. They most likely lack resources (like money or free time), not guidance.
The people who would benefit from the advice (resourceful people full of free time that are doing nothing meaningful) will likely ignore it anyway.
this is one of the common conundrums of life. but for someone living in the grey, this stuff might push them over the edge to be great. that is the point of this article
You can listen to this on youtube with pg's own voice which I find a pretty neat use of AI.
I mostly use Safari Listen feature, on my phone, to listen to it while walking. Pretty neat and doesn’t clutter my YouTube history.
Why? What's neat? To hear his thoughts the way he would voice them? But you're only pretending to...
Why not just read it out loud himself and record it?
Because uhm, he doesn't have time?
There’s something cringey about having a zillion dollars and then using your cash soapbox to bloviate to everyone about how to be great-like-me.
There's nothing "cringey" about sharing your own ideas in your own blog. What's cringey is this kind of pointless ankle-biting.
Genuine question, what work has Paul Graham done that can be classified as 'great'?
Creating YCombinator
The people qualified to do great work probably don't need the advice. They most likely lack resources (like money or free time), not guidance.
The people who would benefit from the advice (resourceful people full of free time that are doing nothing meaningful) will likely ignore it anyway.
this is one of the common conundrums of life. but for someone living in the grey, this stuff might push them over the edge to be great. that is the point of this article
You can listen to this on youtube with pg's own voice which I find a pretty neat use of AI.
I mostly use Safari Listen feature, on my phone, to listen to it while walking. Pretty neat and doesn’t clutter my YouTube history.
Why? What's neat? To hear his thoughts the way he would voice them? But you're only pretending to...
Why not just read it out loud himself and record it?
Because uhm, he doesn't have time?
There’s something cringey about having a zillion dollars and then using your cash soapbox to bloviate to everyone about how to be great-like-me.
There's nothing "cringey" about sharing your own ideas in your own blog. What's cringey is this kind of pointless ankle-biting.