How to Do Great Work
BlogPaul GrahamJun 14, 2023
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PG's longest essay (12,000 words) — the distilled wisdom from 50 years of working with talented people. Pick something you have a genuine interest in. Learn enough to get to the frontier. Notice gaps. Work hard but consistently. The hard part is not effort, it's choosing the right problem.
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July 2023 If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it. Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the…
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