2024
Founder Mode
The Right Kind of Stubborn
The Best Essay
How to Start Google
The Reddits
2022
The Need to Read
What You (Want to)* Want
Alien Truth
What I've Learned from Users
Heresy
Putting Ideas into Words
2021
Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?
Beyond Smart
Weird Languages
How to Work Hard
A Project of One's Own
Fierce Nerds
Crazy New Ideas
An NFT That Saves Lives
The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty
How People Get Rich Now
Donate Unrestricted
Write Simply
What I Worked On
2020
2019
2016
This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
Economic Inequality
The Refragmentation
Life is Short
2015
Jessica Livingston
Default Alive or Default Dead?
A Way to Detect Bias
Write Like You Talk
Change Your Name
Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?
Don't Talk to Corp Dev
The Ronco Principle
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
2014
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
How You Know
The Fatal Pinch
Mean People Fail
Before the Startup
2013
How to Raise Money
How to Convince Investors
Investor Herd Dynamics
Do Things that Don't Scale
Startup Investing Trends
2012
How to Get Startup Ideas
The Hardware Renaissance
Startup = Growth
Black Swan Farming
The Top of My Todo List
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
Defining Property
Writing and Speaking
How Y Combinator Started
Schlep Blindness
Snapshot - Viaweb, June 1998
A Word to the Resourceful
2011
2010
Founder Control
Tablets
What We Look for in Founders
Where to See Silicon Valley
The New Funding Landscape
High Resolution Fundraising
The Future of Startup Funding
What Happened to Yahoo
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
How to Lose Time and Money
The Top Idea in Your Mind
Organic Startup Ideas
2009
Apple's Mistake
What Startups Are Really Like
The Anatomy of Determination
Persuade xor Discover
The List of N Things
Post-Medium Publishing
What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
Ramen Profitable
The Trouble with the Segway
A Local Revolution?
Five Founders
The Founder Visa
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
How to Be an Angel Investor
Why TV Lost
Relentlessly Resourceful
Keep Your Identity Small
Startups in 13 Sentences
What I've Learned from Hacker News
Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.
2008
After Credentials
Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
The High-Res Society
The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
A Fundraising Survival Guide
The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
Cities and Ambition
Disconnecting Distraction
Lies We Tell Kids
Be Good
Why There Aren't More Googles
Some Heroes
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
How to Disagree
A New Venture Animal
Trolls
Six Principles for Making New Things
2007
Why to Move to a Startup Hub
The Future of Web Startups
News from the Front
How to Do Philosophy
How Not to Die
Holding a Program in One's Head
The Equity Equation
Stuff
An Alternative Theory of Unions
Two Kinds of Judgement
The Hacker's Guide to Investors
Microsoft is Dead
Why to Not Not Start a Startup
Is it Worth Being Wise?
Learning from Founders
2006
How Art Can Be Good
A Student's Guide to Startups
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
How to Present to Investors
Copy What You Like
The Island Test
The Power of the Marginal
Why Startups Condense in America
How to Be Silicon Valley
See Randomness
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
6,631,372
Are Software Patents Evil?
Why YC
How to Do What You Love
2005
Good and Bad Procrastination
How to Fund a Startup
The Venture Capital Squeeze
Web 2.0
Ideas for Startups
What I Did this Summer
Inequality and Risk
After the Ladder
What Business Can Learn from Open Source
Hiring is Obsolete
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
The Submarine
Return of the Mac
Undergraduation
How to Start a Startup
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
Writing, Briefly
What You'll Wish You'd Known
2004
2003
Filters that Fight Back
If Lisp is So Great
Hackers and Painters
The Hundred-Year Language
Why Nerds are Unpopular
Better Bayesian Filtering
Design and Research
2002
2001
What Made Lisp Different
The Other Road Ahead
Five Questions about Language Design
Being Popular
The Roots of Lisp
Beating the Averages
Java's Cover
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
1999
Lisp for Web-Based Applications
1993
Programming Bottom-Up
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