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		<title>The truth is that it was never on track in the first place</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2020/02/the-truth-is-that-it-was-never-on-track-in-the-first-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Graham suggests that importance + novelty + correctness + strength, is the recipe for a good essay: But I should warn you that it&#8217;s also a recipe for making people mad. The root of the problem is novelty. When you tell people something they didn&#8217;t know, they don&#8217;t always thank you for it. Sometimes [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ll be accused of some form of heresy</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/youll-be-accused-of-some-form-of-heresy/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/youll-be-accused-of-some-form-of-heresy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you discover something new, Paul Graham says, there&#8217;s a significant chance you&#8217;ll be accused of some form of heresy: To discover new things you have to work on ideas that are good but non-obvious. If an idea is obviously good, other people are probably already working on it. One way for an idea to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The paths that lead to new ideas tend to look unpromising</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/11/the-paths-that-lead-to-new-ideas-tend-to-look-unpromising/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/11/the-paths-that-lead-to-new-ideas-tend-to-look-unpromising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that to do great work you need both natural ability and determination, Paul Graham notes, but there&#8217;s a third ingredient that&#8217;s not as well understood — an obsessive interest in a particular topic: When you look at the lives of people who&#8217;ve done great work, you see a consistent pattern. They often begin [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a big difference between nothing and almost nothing</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2017/09/theres-a-big-difference-between-nothing-and-almost-nothing/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2017/09/theres-a-big-difference-between-nothing-and-almost-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most valuable insights are both general and surprising, Paul Graham says: F = ma for example. But general and surprising is a hard combination to achieve. That territory tends to be picked clean, precisely because those insights are so valuable. Ordinarily, the best that people can do is one without the other: either surprising [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Advice that surprises you</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2014/11/advice-that-surprises-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 12:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Startups are so weird, Paul Graham contends, that if you trust your instincts, you&#8217;ll make a lot of mistakes: When I was running Y Combinator I used to joke that our function was to tell founders things they would ignore. It&#8217;s really true. Batch after batch, the YC partners warn founders about mistakes they&#8217;re about [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Get Startup Ideas</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2012/11/how-to-get-startup-ideas/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2012/11/how-to-get-startup-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common, Paul Graham says: They&#8217;re something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all began this way. [...] The verb you want to be using with respect to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Tablets and Etherealization</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/12/tablets-and-etherealization/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/12/tablets-and-etherealization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Graham suspects that we&#8217;ll end up calling iPhones, iPads, and their Android equivalents tablets: The only reason we even consider calling them &#8220;mobile devices&#8221; is that the iPhone preceded the iPad. If the iPad had come first, we wouldn&#8217;t think of the iPhone as a phone; we&#8217;d think of it as a tablet small enough [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>When Quality Doesn’t Matter</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/09/when-quality-doesnt-matter/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/09/when-quality-doesnt-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when the Web was young, Paul Graham demonstrated a new algorithm to Yahoo&#8217;s Jerry Yang, one that ranked search results by user behavior and differentiated between clicks and clicks leading to purchases.  Yang didn&#8217;t seem to care, and this confused Graham: I was showing him technology that extracted the maximum value from search traffic, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Acceleration of Addictiveness</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/the-acceleration-of-addictiveness/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/the-acceleration-of-addictiveness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Graham discusses the acceleration of addictiveness: What hard liquor, cigarettes, heroin, and crack have in common is that they&#8217;re all more concentrated forms of less addictive predecessors. Most if not all the things we describe as addictive are. And the scary thing is, the process that created them is accelerating. We wouldn&#8217;t want to stop [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Start In The Middle</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/05/start-in-the-middle/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/05/start-in-the-middle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 12:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes time to start a new project, you should start in the middle, not at the beginning: Has this ever happened to you? You wake up one day with a great new idea for applying bayesian filtering to twitter streams to filter out the pictures of Joel’s new puppy spam. You’re totally convinced it’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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