Sunday, August 26, 2007

Paul Graham Essays, Hackers & Painters

Paul Graham is a programmer, painter and author.  He usually writes
about programming, but he writes general stuff too, such as a piece
on procrastination I posted recently.

He's written a couple of interesting pieces lately:
* Stuff
  <http://paulgraham.com/stuff.html>
  ... which is about having too much of it
* Holding a Program in One's Head
Ôøº  <http://paulgraham.com/head.html>
  ... which gives an insight to non-programmers how programmers work
(and why we get cranky when interrupted)

Other great essays are on his website:
  <http://paulgraham.com/articles.html>
including:
* How to Do What You Love
  <http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html>
* What You'll Wish You'd Known
  <http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html>
* How to Make Wealth
  <http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html>
* Great Hackers
  <http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html>
* Hackers and Painters
  <http://paulgraham.com/hp.html>

He wrote a book a few years ago, "Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the
Computer Age":
  <http://paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html>
  <http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters/dp/0596006624>
Some of the essays in the book are also published on the site.  I read the
book last year and enjoyed it.