#pg from 02001 on what made #Lisp different originally: conditionals, a function type, recursion, dynamic typing, garbage collection, unifying expressions and statements, a symbol type, homoiconicity, and being able to “compile or run code while reading, read or run code while compiling, and read or compile code at runtime”.
on 02026-06-16#PG wrote about how to become a billionaire, saying he’s trained about 30 billionaires to do so successfully. He’s right about the virtues of capitalism, but he’s glossing over #enshittification.
on 02026-06-14#PG explains how a 1% wealth tax is roughly equivalent to a 20% increase in the capital gains tax.
on 02026-05-22#PG explaining that #Zuck couldn’t do small talk
on 02026-03-22#PG on the relationship between brand and quality, using the Swiss watch industry's response to the quartz crisis as his main example. #marketing
on 02026-03-06#PG on “What you can’t say”, from 02004 #politics
on 02025-12-12#Bel #metacircular #Lisp interpreter spec by #PG. #small-is-beautiful
on 02025-11-05#Bel #Lisp language spec by #PG.
on 02025-11-05The original post of my “on redundancy and power” that #pg liked, on the #ll1-discuss mailing list. 02002-05-29. Five days after pg’s “succinctness = power” post.
on 02025-10-24Paul Graham #pg on how to do “great work”. “There's a kind of excited curiosity that's both the engine and the rudder of great work.” Thought-provoking and interesting as usual.
on 02023-07-01