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Making Startups Powerful
September 2026
2
How Universities Should Prepare Founders
August 2026
3
How to Earn a Billion Dollars
June 2026
4
How to Convert Between Wealth and Income Tax
May 2026
5
The Brand Age
March 2026
6
The Shape of the Essay Field
June 2025
7
Good Writing
May 2025
8
What to Do
March 2025
9
The Origins of Wokeness
January 2025
10
Writes and Write-Nots
October 2024
11
When To Do What You Love
September 2024
12
Founder Mode
September 2024
13
The Right Kind of Stubborn
July 2024
14
The Reddits
March 2024
15
How to Start Google
March 2024
16
The Best Essay
March 2024
17
Superlinear Returns
October 2023
18
How to Do Great Work
July 2023
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All 235 essays
Making Startups Powerful
September 2026
How Universities Should Prepare Founders
August 2026
How to Earn a Billion Dollars
June 2026
How to Convert Between Wealth and Income Tax
May 2026
The Brand Age
March 2026
The Shape of the Essay Field
June 2025
Good Writing
May 2025
What to Do
March 2025
The Origins of Wokeness
January 2025
Writes and Write-Nots
October 2024
When To Do What You Love
September 2024
Founder Mode
September 2024
The Right Kind of Stubborn
July 2024
The Reddits
March 2024
How to Start Google
March 2024
The Best Essay
March 2024
Superlinear Returns
October 2023
How to Do Great Work
July 2023
How to Get New Ideas
January 2023
The Need to Read
November 2022
What You (Want to)* Want
November 2022
Alien Truth
October 2022
What I've Learned from Users
September 2022
Heresy
April 2022
Putting Ideas into Words
February 2022
Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?
November 2021
Beyond Smart
October 2021
Weird Languages
August 2021
How to Work Hard
June 2021
A Project of One's Own
June 2021
Fierce Nerds
May 2021
Crazy New Ideas
May 2021
An NFT That Saves Lives
May 2021
The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty
April 2021
How People Get Rich Now
April 2021
Write Simply
March 2021
Donate Unrestricted
March 2021
What I Worked On
February 2021
Earnestness
December 2020
Billionaires Build
December 2020
The Airbnbs
December 2020
How to Think for Yourself
November 2020
Early Work
October 2020
Modeling a Wealth Tax
August 2020
The Four Quadrants of Conformism
July 2020
Orthodox Privilege
July 2020
Coronavirus and Credibility
April 2020
How to Write Usefully
February 2020
Being a Noob
January 2020
Haters
January 2020
The Two Kinds of Moderate
December 2019
Fashionable Problems
December 2019
Having Kids
December 2019
The Lesson to Unlearn
December 2019
Novelty and Heresy
November 2019
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
November 2019
General and Surprising
September 2017
Charisma / Power
January 2017
The Risk of Discovery
January 2017
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
April 2016
Life is Short
January 2016
Economic Inequality
January 2016
The Refragmentation
January 2016
Jessica Livingston
November 2015
A Way to Detect Bias
October 2015
Write Like You Talk
October 2015
Default Alive or Default Dead?
October 2015
Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
August 2015
Change Your Name
August 2015
What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?
February 2015
The Ronco Principle
January 2015
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
January 2015
Don't Talk to Corp Dev
January 2015
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
December 2014
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
December 2014
How You Know
December 2014
The Fatal Pinch
December 2014
Mean People Fail
November 2014
Before the Startup
How to Raise Money
Investor Herd Dynamics
How to Convince Investors
Do Things that Don't Scale
Startup Investing Trends
June 2013
How to Get Startup Ideas
The Hardware Renaissance
Startup = Growth
Black Swan Farming
The Top of My Todo List
April 2012
Writing and Speaking
March 2012
How Y Combinator Started
March 2012
Defining Property
March 2012
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
A Word to the Resourceful
Schlep Blindness
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
January 2012
Why Startup Hubs Work
The Patent Pledge
August 2011
Subject: Airbnb
March 2011
Founder Control
Tablets
December 2010
What We Look for in Founders
The New Funding Landscape
Where to See Silicon Valley
High Resolution Fundraising
What Happened to Yahoo
The Future of Startup Funding
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
July 2010
The Top Idea in Your Mind
How to Lose Time and Money
July 2010
Organic Startup Ideas
Apple's Mistake
What Startups Are Really Like
Persuade xor Discover
September 2009
Post-Medium Publishing
September 2009
The List of N Things
September 2009
The Anatomy of Determination
What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley
August 2009
The Trouble with the Segway
July 2009
Ramen Profitable
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
A Local Revolution?
April 2009
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
April 2009
The Founder Visa
April 2009
Five Founders
April 2009
Relentlessly Resourceful
How to Be an Angel Investor
March 2009
Why TV Lost
March 2009
Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.
February 2009
What I've Learned from Hacker News
February 2009
Startups in 13 Sentences
Keep Your Identity Small
February 2009
After Credentials
December 2008
Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
December 2008
The High-Res Society
December 2008
The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
November 2008
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
A Fundraising Survival Guide
The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
July 2008
Cities and Ambition
May 2008
Disconnecting Distraction
Lies We Tell Kids
May 2008
Be Good
April 2008
Why There Aren't More Googles
Some Heroes
April 2008
How to Disagree
March 2008
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
A New Venture Animal
Trolls
February 2008
Six Principles for Making New Things
February 2008
Why to Move to a Startup Hub
October 2007
The Future of Web Startups
How to Do Philosophy
September 2007
News from the Front
September 2007
How Not to Die
Holding a Program in One's Head
August 2007
Stuff
July 2007
The Equity Equation
July 2007
An Alternative Theory of Unions
May 2007
The Hacker's Guide to Investors
April 2007
Two Kinds of Judgement
April 2007
Microsoft is Dead
April 2007
Why to Not Not Start a Startup
Is It Worth Being Wise?
February 2007
Learning from Founders
January 2007
How Art Can Be Good
December 2006
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
A Student's Guide to Startups
How to Present to Investors
Copy What You Like
July 2006
The Island Test
July 2006
The Power of the Marginal
Why Startups Condense in America
May 2006
How to Be Silicon Valley
May 2006
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
April 2006
See Randomness
Are Software Patents Evil?
March 2006
6,631,372
Why YC
How to Do What You Love
Good and Bad Procrastination
December 2005
Web 2.0
How to Fund a Startup
The Venture Capital Squeeze
November 2005
Ideas for Startups
What I Did this Summer
October 2005
Inequality and Risk
August 2005
After the Ladder
August 2005
What Business Can Learn from Open Source
August 2005
Hiring is Obsolete
The Submarine
April 2005
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
Return of the Mac
March 2005
Writing, Briefly
March 2005
Undergraduation
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
March 2005
How to Start a Startup
What You'll Wish You'd Known
January 2005
Made in USA
November 2004
It's Charisma, Stupid
Bradley's Ghost
November 2004
A Version 1.0
October 2004
What the Bubble Got Right
September 2004
The Age of the Essay
September 2004
The Python Paradox
August 2004
Great Hackers
Mind the Gap
May 2004
How to Make Wealth
The Word "Hacker"
April 2004
What You Can't Say
January 2004
Filters that Fight Back
August 2003
Hackers and Painters
May 2003
If Lisp is So Great
May 2003
The Hundred-Year Language
April 2003
Why Nerds are Unpopular
February 2003
Better Bayesian Filtering
January 2003
Design and Research
January 2003
A Plan for Spam
Revenge of the Nerds
Succinctness is Power
May 2002
What Languages Fix
Taste for Makers
February 2002
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
What Made Lisp Different
The Other Road Ahead
September 2001
The Roots of Lisp
May 2001
Five Questions about Language Design
May 2001
Being Popular
May 2001
Java's Cover
April 2001
Beating the Averages
Lisp for Web-Based Applications
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
Programming Bottom-Up
This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California
November 2016