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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

Paul Graham
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Summary

Paul Graham's essay collection on the computer age: hacking as a craft like painting, why nerds are unpopular, how to think about startups, and what software is really for.

For founders

Armstrong's one-line recommendation — 'a printed version of some of his essays' — undersells it: for founders it is Graham's core doctrine in book form, the argument that hacking is a maker's craft and startups are the vehicle for doing it.

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