A THREAD on insightful timeless ideas shared by Paul Graham ( @paulg) during 2010-15:

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Almost all business books are an essay's worth of ideas, macroexpanded one way or another.
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Advice that will improve almost any writing: Cut half the words. Don't write anything you wouldn't say.
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Studying history helps you predict the future by teaching you which things are old enough to be permanent.
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Startups in 137 chars: Make something someone specific needs, launch fast, let users show you what to change, change it, repeat last two.
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You've found market price when buyers complain but still pay.
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It's remarkable what a large percentage of our advice at Y Combinator is either "Just tell them" or "Just ask them."
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Uber is so obviously a good thing that you can measure how corrupt cities are by how hard they try to suppress it.
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In a time of bad design, building something simple is a revolutionary act.
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Technology has been eliminating jobs for centuries. But not net jobs.
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When a startup has good news, it usually contains numbers. An investor update that's all letters is a bad sign.
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If you're expanding too fast, don't count on your board to warn you. As VCs, kill-or-cure strategies serve their interests.
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Haters and fanboys are the same thing, with the sign bit flipped.
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One of the most curious things about haters is the energy with which they hate. Imagine if they used that energy for good.
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The danger of being attached to a false premise is that you also discard all the connected ideas, and ideas are highly connected.
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The more elaborate the explanation of why something failed, the less likely it is to be true.
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All progress in tools increases economic inequality.

Tools multiply output, and the bottom end of the range is always zero.
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A lot of discoveries take the form of realizing you don't need something you unconsciously assumed you did.
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"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." – Paul Farmer
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Specialists can tell you what to worry about.

True experts can tell you what not to worry about.
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The right way to do a tweetstorm is to make the tweets also work independently.
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