Essays

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Essays

by Paul Graham

~51 hours·210 chapters

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Chapters

210 total
1

001 This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California.

1:08
2

002 Programming Bottom-Up.

5:48
3

005 Lisp for Web-Based Applications.

0:22
4

006 Beating the Averages.

27:06
5

007 Java's Cover.

8:14
6

008 Being Popular.

46:05
7

009 Five Questions about Language Design.

17:49
8

010 The Roots of Lisp.

2:21
9

011 The Other Road Ahead.

1:12:48
10

012 What Made Lisp Different.

4:28

Description

Paul Graham is a co-founder of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator in Silicon Valley. He is also a prolific writer, and his essays are considered by many to be some of the best writing on startups and entrepreneurship.

We are not affiliated with Paul Graham or Y Combinator. We just love his essays and wanted to make them more accessible to everyone. That's why these audio versions are available to any user for free.

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~51 hours (2969K characters)