Ask HN: Who are some writers/thinkers similar to Paul Graham and Sam Altman?

Have always enjoyed these guys

http://andrewchen.co/ Andrew Chen of Uber http://jwegan.com/ John Wegan of Pinterest

Probably more growth/product focused than PG and SA, but definitely give some excellent insight.

Not sure if this qualifies as similar to PG, but I'd throw in Joel Spolsky of Trello and StackOverflow fame (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/) in there. He doesn't blog anymore, but there's a decade's worth of posts there concerning technology, product management and startups. Some other names off the top of my head: Hanselman, Coding Horror, AVC, Both sides of the table, Justin Kan (only read a few posts that showed up on HN, but I liked them.)

Michael O'Church /s

I enjoyed every single essay from Dustine Curtis of Svbtle https://dcurt.is/

I'm a big fan of idlewords's contrasting take on tech: http://idlewords.com/

Ben Thompson of Stratechery: https://stratechery.com/

And my most recommended read of all, Slate Star Codex: http://slatestarcodex.com/ (Skip all the link posts and open threads; just read his essays. Superb.)

Read everything you can find by Patrick McKenzie. It's more consulting than startup in focus, but it's gold, all of it. Random bits of enterprise software-sales gold mixed in with consulting and sales and marketing gold. Also look up some of the best-of comments on this forum by Thomas Ptacek ('tptacek). Those guys helped me make way more consulting than I would have without reading their stuff (seriously quadrupled my rates and it's a good thing I made the next deal over the phone because I could barely keep a straight face).

Seth Godin has some pretty interesting books. I am listening to the audio version of Linchpin right now.

Andreessen Horowitz: http://a16z.com