How does Paul Graham think? A deep dive into his essays

I've been fascinated by PG's essays since I read How To Start a Startup in 2014. Recently, I've been studying his work more seriously and am looking for two or three people who might be interested in doing a deep dive in January.

Our primary goal is to look into PG’s mind and share what we learn. Open to suggestions on what we should do, but here are a few initial questions we might explore:

* How has his publishing cadence evolved over time? It would be cool to create a timeline of all of his essays and overlay it with his tweets, public interviews, and videos to have a more complete picture of his thinking. * Who are the most frequent reviewers? These are the people PG trusts most to review his work, so it might be interesting to see how this has evolved over time. * How are the essays interconnected? PG frequently cross links between his essays and it could be interesting to illustrate this visually. Perhaps we can also explore which other sites cross link to PG's essays as well. * What are the key insights within each essay? Perhaps this can be distilled into principles, a la Ray Dalio. * What are some of the best analogies in his essays? PG is a master of analogies. Maybe we can parse them out and highlight them in some cool way.

Experience building and searching data sets from HTML and Twitter, synthesizing text using ChatGPT, and visually displaying data could be particularly relevant.

If this sounds interesting to you, or even if you just have ideas, please fill out the form linked below.

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