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.

Links

Paul Graham's Blog
YCombinator
The code to generate the ebook was made by Omar Olivares, drop star if you enjoy: https://github.com/ofou/graham-essays

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Duration

~51 hours (2969K characters)