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How to Do Great Work
Paul Graham's attempt to distill the common substrate of great work across all fields — and what he finds isn't discipline or talent, but the kind of curiosity you can't fake.
- “There's a kind of excited curiosity that's both the engine and the rudder of great work.”
- “When an idea seems simultaneously novel and obvious, it's probably a good one.”
- “Style is doing things in a distinctive way without trying to. Trying to is affectation.”
- Per-project procrastination camouflages itself as work — you're not sitting around doing nothing, you're industriously working on something else, which is why it never sets off the alarm.
- “A good new idea has to seem bad to most people, or someone would have already explored it.”