- How to Do What You Love - Paul Graham
Most people would say, I'd take that problem Give me a million dollars and I'll figure out what to do But it's harder than it looks Constraints give your life shape Remove them and most people have no idea what to do: look at what happens to those who win lotteries or inherit money
- When To Do What You Love - paulgraham. com
When you have trouble choosing between following your interests and making money, it's never because you have complete knowledge of yourself and of the types of work you're choosing between, and the options are perfectly balanced
- Essays - Paul Graham
If you're not sure which to read, try How to Do Great Work, Having Kids, or How to Lose Time and Money
- What to Do - paulgraham. com
They were answers to the question of how to be, rather than what to do The audience didn't have a lot of choice about what to do The audience up till recent centuries was the landowning class, which was also the political class They weren't choosing between doing physics and writing novels
- What You (Want to)* Want - Paul Graham
So we modify our initial statement: You can do what you want, but you can't want to want what you want That's still not quite true It's possible to change what you want to want I can imagine someone saying "I decided to stop wanting to like classical music " But we're getting closer to the truth
- Paul Graham
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- Makers Schedule, Managers Schedule - Paul Graham
When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting
- How to Start a Startup - Paul Graham
It turns out that no one comes and arrests you if you don't do everything you're supposed to when starting a company And a good thing too, or a lot of startups would never get started
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