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A Project of One's Own
Paul Graham · Passages from the same work, in order.
A Project of One's Own, Excerpt 1
A few days ago, on the way home from school, my nine year old son told me he couldn't wait to get home to write more of the story he was working on.…
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A Project of One's Own, Excerpt 2
The hard part is making this converge with the work you do as an adult. And our customs make it harder. We treat "playing" and "hobbies" as…
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A Project of One's Own, Excerpt 4
The other sense of a project being one's own — working on it by oneself — has a much softer edge. It shades gradually into collaboration. And…
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A Project of One's Own, Excerpt 5
A company that needs software to do something can't use the software already written to do it at another company, and thus has to write their own,…
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A Project of One's Own, Excerpt 6
There are a few people who start too many new projects, but far more, I suspect, who are deterred by fear of failure from starting projects that…
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