Personal Reading List

A small, personal index of essays I enjoy.

This is an independent reading list. It is not Paul Graham's website and does not reproduce his articles. Each title links to the original source at paulgraham.com.
  1. How to Do Great Work
  2. Having Kids
  3. How to Lose Time and Money
  4. Making Startups Powerful
  5. How Universities Should Prepare Founders
  6. How to Earn a Billion Dollars
  7. How to Convert Between Wealth and Income Tax
  8. The Brand Age
  9. The Shape of the Essay Field
  10. Good Writing
  11. What to Do
  12. The Origins of Wokeness
  13. Writes and Write-Nots
  14. When To Do What You Love
  15. Founder Mode
  16. The Right Kind of Stubborn
  17. The Reddits
  18. How to Start Google
  19. The Best Essay
  20. Superlinear Returns
  21. How to Get New Ideas
  22. The Need to Read
  23. What You (Want to)* Want
  24. Alien Truth
  25. What I've Learned from Users
  26. Heresy
  27. Putting Ideas into Words
  28. Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?
  29. Beyond Smart
  30. Weird Languages
  31. How to Work Hard
  32. A Project of One's Own
  33. Fierce Nerds
  34. Crazy New Ideas
  35. An NFT That Saves Lives
  36. The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty
  37. How People Get Rich Now
  38. Write Simply
  39. Donate Unrestricted
  40. What I Worked On
  41. Earnestness
  42. Billionaires Build
  43. The Airbnbs
  44. How to Think for Yourself
  45. Early Work
  46. Modeling a Wealth Tax
  47. The Four Quadrants of Conformism
  48. Orthodox Privilege
  49. Coronavirus and Credibility
  50. How to Write Usefully
  51. Being a Noob
  52. Haters
  53. The Two Kinds of Moderate
  54. Fashionable Problems
  55. The Lesson to Unlearn
  56. Novelty and Heresy
  57. The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
  58. General and Surprising
  59. Charisma / Power
  60. The Risk of Discovery
  61. How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
  62. Life is Short
  63. Economic Inequality
  64. The Refragmentation
  65. Jessica Livingston
  66. A Way to Detect Bias
  67. Write Like You Talk
  68. Default Alive or Default Dead?
  69. Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
  70. Change Your Name
  71. What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?
  72. The Ronco Principle
  73. What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
  74. Don't Talk to Corp Dev
  75. Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
  76. How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
  77. How You Know
  78. The Fatal Pinch
  79. Mean People Fail
  80. Before the Startup

Titles and links were collected from the public article index. Please read the originals on the author's site.