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How to Work Hard

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Re: How to Work Hard

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Post by nicholast »

I know this is somewhat of a false dichotomy, but at some point I think PG's essays started to shift from being directed at startup founders to giving advice to his children that they can read when they grow older.

Re: How to Work Hard

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Post by WillDaSilva »

Strange that Firefox's reader view cannot be enabled for this post. Probably because instead of using `

` tags or similar, the content of the post is contained within a `` block inside a table, with `
` tags separating the paragraphs.

Not having the content inside of `

` blocks is a departure from Paul Graham's older content, and a confusing one at that.

EDIT: It looks like the posts with the "Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator." banner are contained within a `

` block, and can be read with Firefox reader view, but those without the banner are not within a `

` block, and cannot be read with Firefox reader view.

Re: How to Work Hard

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Post by nicholast »

nicholast wrote: post #3

I know this is somewhat of a false dichotomy, but at some point I think PG's essays started to shift from being directed at startup founders to giving advice to his children that they can read when they grow older.

Ok I just looked up the phrase false dichotomy, apparently doesn't mean what I thought it meant, probably would have been better said as "the two are not mutually exclusive", still point holds.

Re: How to Work Hard

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Post by dash2 »

Good place to say what a profound genius P G Wodehouse was. Here's one of my favourite exchanges from a Jeeves book:

"If you will recollect, we are now in Autumn – season of mists and mellow fruitfulness."

"Season of what?"

"Mists, sir, and mellow fruitfulness."

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