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2026

Sep Making Startups Powerful 15.5 min Aug How Universities Should Prepare Founders 15.2 min Jun How to Earn a Billion Dollars 12.4 min May How to Convert Between Wealth and Income Tax 3.8 min Mar The Brand Age 40.2 min

2025

Jun The Shape of the Essay Field 4.1 min May Good Writing 8.6 min Mar What to Do 8.3 min Jan The Origins of Wokeness 32.7 min

2024

Oct Writes and Write-Nots 2.9 min Sep When To Do What You Love 8.3 min Sep Founder Mode 6.5 min Jul The Right Kind of Stubborn 10.3 min Mar The Reddits 6 min Mar How to Start Google 14.9 min Mar The Best Essay 22.9 min

2023

Oct Superlinear Returns 22.5 min Jul How to Do Great Work 62.5 min Jan How to Get New Ideas 0.8 min

2022

Nov What You (Want to)* Want 2.8 min Nov The Need to Read 2.4 min Oct Alien Truth 3.6 min Sep What I've Learned from Users 11.7 min Apr Heresy 11.3 min Feb Putting Ideas into Words 6.2 min

2021

Nov Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste? 5.9 min Oct Beyond Smart 7.7 min Aug Weird Languages 1.8 min Jun A Project of One's Own 13.3 min Jun How to Work Hard 17.5 min May An NFT That Saves Lives 1.8 min May Crazy New Ideas 7 min May Fierce Nerds 6.7 min Apr How People Get Rich Now 13.8 min Apr The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty 4.2 min Mar Write Simply 2.6 min Mar Donate Unrestricted 2.5 min Feb What I Worked On 71.8 min

2020

Dec Earnestness 9.1 min Dec The Airbnbs 5.8 min Dec Billionaires Build 18 min Nov How to Think for Yourself 18.7 min Oct Early Work 13.4 min Aug Modeling a Wealth Tax 2.4 min Jul Orthodox Privilege 3.5 min Jul The Four Quadrants of Conformism 10.5 min Apr Coronavirus and Credibility 1.3 min Feb How to Write Usefully 15.3 min Jan Being a Noob 1.9 min Jan Haters 7.3 min

2019

Dec The Two Kinds of Moderate 3.5 min Dec The Lesson to Unlearn 21 min Dec Having Kids 8 min Dec Fashionable Problems 1.1 min Nov Novelty and Heresy 1.4 min Nov The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius 13.9 min

2017

Sep General and Surprising 2.4 min Jan Charisma / Power 0.7 min Jan The Risk of Discovery 1.1 min

2016

Nov This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California 1.1 min Apr How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub 13.9 min Jan Life is Short 8.8 min Jan The Refragmentation 37.7 min Jan Economic Inequality 18.4 min

2015

Nov Jessica Livingston 10.3 min Oct Write Like You Talk 3.8 min Oct A Way to Detect Bias 3 min Oct Default Alive or Default Dead? 8 min Aug Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice 4.4 min Aug Change Your Name 4.1 min Feb What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of? 2 min Jan What Doesn't Seem Like Work? 2.6 min Jan The Ronco Principle 3.4 min Jan Don't Talk to Corp Dev 7 min

2014

Dec The Fatal Pinch 8.1 min Dec How You Know 3.3 min Dec How to Be an Expert in a Changing World 5.6 min Dec Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In 5 min Nov Mean People Fail 6 min Oct Before the Startup 24.5 min

2013

Sep How to Raise Money 56.5 min Aug Investor Herd Dynamics 5.8 min Aug How to Convince Investors 19.6 min Jul Do Things that Don't Scale 23.2 min Jun Startup Investing Trends 15.5 min

2012

Nov How to Get Startup Ideas 38 min Oct The Hardware Renaissance 2.5 min Sep Black Swan Farming 11.4 min Sep Startup = Growth 27.8 min Apr The Top of My Todo List 1.3 min Mar How Y Combinator Started 7.7 min Mar Writing and Speaking 6.3 min Mar Defining Property 5.4 min Mar Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas 19.7 min Jan A Word to the Resourceful 4.3 min Jan Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998 5.2 min Jan Schlep Blindness 4.5 min

2011

Oct Why Startup Hubs Work 9.7 min Aug The Patent Pledge 3.6 min Mar Subject: Airbnb 6.9 min

2010

Dec Tablets 2.9 min Dec Founder Control 4.1 min Oct The New Funding Landscape 19 min Oct Where to See Silicon Valley 6.5 min Oct What We Look for in Founders 4.5 min Sep High Resolution Fundraising 3.7 min Aug What Happened to Yahoo 10.7 min Aug The Future of Startup Funding 20.6 min Jul The Top Idea in Your Mind 6.3 min Jul How to Lose Time and Money 3.6 min Jul The Acceleration of Addictiveness 6.9 min Apr Organic Startup Ideas 5.3 min

2009

Nov Apple's Mistake 11.4 min Oct What Startups Are Really Like 26.5 min Sep Post-Medium Publishing 9.5 min Sep The List of N Things 7.7 min Sep Persuade xor Discover 7 min Sep The Anatomy of Determination 8 min Aug What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley 4.3 min Jul The Trouble with the Segway 2.1 min Jul Ramen Profitable 9.8 min Jul Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule 6.2 min Apr Why Twitter is a Big Deal 0.9 min Apr A Local Revolution? 7.2 min Apr The Founder Visa 2 min Apr Five Founders 4.1 min Mar Relentlessly Resourceful 5.3 min Mar Why TV Lost 8.1 min Mar How to Be an Angel Investor 21.3 min Feb Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe. 10.2 min Feb Keep Your Identity Small 4.6 min Feb What I've Learned from Hacker News 15.4 min Feb Startups in 13 Sentences 7.2 min

2008

Dec The High-Res Society 7.9 min Dec Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession? 7 min Dec After Credentials 12.4 min Nov The Other Half of "Artists Ship" 6.8 min Oct Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy 5.9 min Aug A Fundraising Survival Guide 25.4 min Jul The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company 6.7 min May Lies We Tell Kids 27.4 min May Disconnecting Distraction 6 min May Cities and Ambition 18.7 min Apr Some Heroes 14.5 min Apr Why There Aren't More Googles 7.1 min Apr Be Good 15.6 min Mar A New Venture Animal 10.5 min Mar How to Disagree 7.8 min Mar You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss 13.3 min Feb Trolls 4.7 min Feb Six Principles for Making New Things 6.1 min

2007

Oct The Future of Web Startups 17.6 min Oct Why to Move to a Startup Hub 7.8 min Sep How to Do Philosophy 24.9 min Sep News from the Front 11.6 min Aug Holding a Program in One's Head 6 min Aug How Not to Die 10.4 min Jul Stuff 6.5 min Jul The Equity Equation 6 min May An Alternative Theory of Unions 2.7 min Apr Microsoft is Dead 6.9 min Apr Two Kinds of Judgement 3.9 min Apr The Hacker's Guide to Investors 32.9 min Mar Why to Not Not Start a Startup 33.2 min Feb Is It Worth Being Wise? 19.6 min Jan Learning from Founders 4.1 min

2006

Dec How Art Can Be Good 19.1 min Oct The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups 29.6 min Oct A Student's Guide to Startups 34 min Aug How to Present to Investors 14.7 min Jul The Island Test 4 min Jul Copy What You Like 4.9 min Jun The Power of the Marginal 31.9 min May How to Be Silicon Valley 19 min May Why Startups Condense in America 24.9 min Apr The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn 25.5 min Apr See Randomness 3.1 min Mar Why YC 2 min Mar Are Software Patents Evil? 24.7 min Mar 6,631,372 3.8 min Jan How to Do What You Love 24.6 min

2005

Dec Good and Bad Procrastination 9.5 min Nov Web 2.0 18.8 min Nov The Venture Capital Squeeze 8.2 min Nov How to Fund a Startup 46.6 min Oct What I Did this Summer 13.5 min Oct Ideas for Startups 20.8 min Aug What Business Can Learn from Open Source 22.9 min Aug After the Ladder 3 min Aug Inequality and Risk 14.8 min May Hiring is Obsolete 25.1 min Apr The Submarine 13.3 min Apr Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas 17 min Mar Writing, Briefly 2.4 min Mar A Unified Theory of VC Suckage 7.7 min Mar How to Start a Startup 50.7 min Mar Return of the Mac 5.4 min Mar Undergraduation 19.2 min Jan What You'll Wish You'd Known 26.4 min

2004

Nov Made in USA 9.9 min Nov Bradley's Ghost 3.2 min Nov It's Charisma, Stupid 7.8 min Oct A Version 1.0 22.1 min Sep The Age of the Essay 23.4 min Sep What the Bubble Got Right 19.4 min Aug The Python Paradox 2.4 min Jul Great Hackers 27.4 min May How to Make Wealth 46.4 min May Mind the Gap 29.7 min Apr The Word "Hacker" 10 min Jan What You Can't Say 28.2 min

2003

Aug Filters that Fight Back 4.4 min May If Lisp is So Great 2.3 min May Hackers and Painters 28.8 min Apr The Hundred-Year Language 24.9 min Feb Why Nerds are Unpopular 29.4 min Jan Design and Research 13.8 min Jan Better Bayesian Filtering 22.3 min

2002

Aug A Plan for Spam 27.9 min May Succinctness is Power 15.5 min May Revenge of the Nerds 28.5 min Feb Taste for Makers 22.7 min

2001

Dec What Made Lisp Different 3.9 min Sep The Other Road Ahead 62.3 min May The Roots of Lisp 1.9 min May Being Popular 39.2 min May Five Questions about Language Design 15.5 min Apr Lisp for Web-Based Applications 0.3 min Apr Java's Cover 7.2 min Apr Beating the Averages 23.2 min

1993

Programming Bottom-Up 4.1 min

Undated

Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented 1.3 min What Languages Fix 1.1 min

Book excerpts

Chapter 1 of ANSI Common Lisp

Chapter 2 of ANSI Common Lisp