What I Worked On

BlogPaul GrahamJun 14, 2021

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PG's autobiographical essay covering 50 years — from learning to program in 9th grade, through Lisp/AI, Viaweb, YC, and back to writing essays. The honest story of how a career actually unfolds: zigzag, retroactive, full of mistakes that turned out to be the right move.

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February 2021 Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school, were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what beginning writers were supposed to write then, and probably still are: short stories. My stories were awful. They had hardly any plot, just characters…

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