It's easier to innovate when you're the original of something. People copying you can only copy a snapshot of your current state. They don't know whi… - Paul Graham
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It's easier to innovate when you're the original of something. People copying you can only copy a snapshot of your current state. They don't know which aspects of the snapshot are essential and which are random things you'd been about to change anyway.
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Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.
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If you can keep hope and worry balanced, they will drive a project forward the same way your two legs drive a bicycle forward.
The difference between a random fact and (for lack of a better word) a non-random one is how many other facts it's connected to. The latter kind are better.
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If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some newly introduced incompatibility.
