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The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 50:25 David Senra And so Demis is talking about Sam Altman and it says, Demis recalled what Paul Graham wrote. 3 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 33:51 David Senra It's written by Paul Graham.
Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
- ▶ 5:47 David Senra There is, um, this great essay by Paul Graham.
I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods
- ▶ 9:19 David Senra I always quote the, my, one of my favorite essays, Paul Graham's essay, how to do great work.
The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- ▶ 36:21 David Senra And then I want to quote one of my favorite essays, which is how to do great work by Paul Graham. 4 times in the scene
How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
- ▶ 3:58 David Senra So there's a great line that Paul Graham, uh, had when he wrote this phenomenal essay. 2 times in the scene
The Inside Story of America's Richest Man: Sam Walton
- ▶ 5:29 David Senra It comes from Paul Graham and he was asking, what is the better predictor of company success, success in business? 2 times in the scene
The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness by David Ogilvy
- ▶ 14:14 David Senra One of my favorite episodes I've ever done is on a single episode written, or single essay, rather, written by Paul Graham.
Oprah In Her Own Words
- ▶ 31:21 David Senra One of my favorite episodes I did last year was episode three, 14, which is on Paul Graham's excellent essay on how to do great work. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:40 David Senra And so anyways, he couldn't find the book, so he, he got a copy, printed it out, and put it into binders, and so now I've done this several times, so like, uh, Paul Graham's essays when I did that series, I think it's like, two 7502 76,…
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 1:04:59 David Senra Um, I did one of my great, one of my favorite quotes from Paul Graham, and he's got a great, a lot of great quotes, but he talks about the importance of being around other ambitious people. 2 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 2:59 David Senra One of my favorite paragraphs I've ever read and anything I've read for the podcast so far came from this excellent essay by Paul Graham. 2 times in the scene
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 44:59 David Senra I think Paul Graham said the, the number one breakup of, in Y Combinator is not like, uh, external factors.
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 38:28 David Senra He was asked one time, what, what plays a more important role in the success of entrepreneurs, uh, determination or intelligence. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Jimmy Buffett
- ▶ 25:55 David Senra Sounds a lot like if you listen to the episode three, 14, Paul Graham, how to do great work. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:54 David Senra One of my favorite lines from the essay I mentioned earlier by Paul Graham on how to do great work is being prolific is underrated.
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
- ▶ 36:44 David Senra This phenomenon was noticed by Paul Graham when he was building Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 7:58 David Senra And if you listen to the Paul Graham episode I did a few weeks ago, I think it's episode three, 14 on how to do great work. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Bugatti
- ▶ 25:52 David Senra It reminded me of, if you think about the main, like, guiding, like, North Star to Paul Graham's, uh, essay on, I think, episode three-fourteen, How to Do Great Work.
- ▶ 35:53 David Senra This is going to sound a lot like, I feel it's like, Bugatti's like the, the, the personification of Paul Graham's essay, How to Do Great Work, right?
The Biography of Balenciaga
- ▶ 3:16 David Senra Remind me of what Paul Graham said in his essay on episode three 14.
- ▶ 17:31 David Senra Last week, in the Paul Graham episode on three 14, he said this
- ▶ 23:43 David Senra Another way to think about this is what Paul Graham said in that essay from last week's episode.
Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
- ▶ 0:39 David Senra And right away, we get to one of Paul's first footnotes. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:38 David Senra Like he's, he's telling you, he's like, follow your interest. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:06 David Senra And if you read, uh, I think I have notes on this later, but Paul's essays a lot. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:52 David Senra So that's another, he's introducing, he's reintroducing that idea, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:04 David Senra Paul Graham says ideally those hours will be continuous. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:39 David Senra This is Paul's theory on per project procrastination. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:09 David Senra So let's define affectation because he's going to use this word a couple of times. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:25 David Senra In fact, I was reading this essay and then going through a bunch of other, um, quotes that Paul collects on his website that I think are excellent. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:28 David Senra So in addition to reading th this essay, I thought I saw that, um, Paul's wife and his partner on Y Combinator, Jessica said that she's going to reread every year. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:40 David Senra Paul Graham's way of saying that is seek out the best colleagues. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:24 David Senra When you start doubting yourself, Paul saying here, it's like, listen, the basis of everything, when you're working on ambitious projects, he goes back to why managing your inner monologue, your own morale is so important. 4 times in the scene
Robert Caro on Power, Poverty, Ruthlessness, Obsession & Running.
- ▶ 35:26 David Senra I had spent, I think, three weeks reading and rereading all of Paul Graham's essays. 5 times in the scene
Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
- ▶ 45:10 David Senra One of my favorite things that Paul Graham 4 times in the scene
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 1:27:14 David Senra And then on episode two 75, Paul Graham, be hard to kill.
The Biography of The Founder of Rolls-Royce
- ▶ 2:34 David Senra I was just did this three part series where I read all of Paul Graham's essays on episode two 77, which is a third in that three part series. 4 times in the scene
Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 36:15 David Senra If you listen to my three-part series about Paul Graham's essays, episode two 75, 76, and two 77,
Working With Steve Jobs
- ▶ 29:20 David Senra I mean, Paul Graham talks about that, you know, decade after decade in his essays.
The Biography of Jimi Hendrix
- ▶ 32:47 David Senra You and I just spent how many weeks going over Paul Graham's essays, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:42 David Senra Uh, Paul Graham talks about, hey, on the Y Combinator application, we ask about the prehistory of co-founders more than any other single thing.
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- ▶ 20:35 David Senra The next paragraph is going to echo, uh, when, in Paul Graham's fantastic essay, Relentlessly Resourceful, he mentions the best metaphor to describe, like, the best founders is, like, the running backs.
- ▶ 28:53 David Senra So she was maybe the best practitioner of Paul Graham's idea that you should do things that don't scale.
- ▶ 47:55 David Senra It might've been in Paul Graham's essays, but it was a quote from this famous explorer called Roald Amundsen, and he says, victory awaits him who has everything in order, or luck, as some people call it.
Peter Thiel's Ideas
- ▶ 3:01 David Senra And I think it's going to be interesting for you and I to go through this book again, right after spending so many weeks going through the essays of Paul Graham. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:51 David Senra and I have talked about in the last three weeks over and over and over again, Paul references the power of small groups, specifically the power of small groups of smart people.
- ▶ 24:36 David Senra This is going to sound real familiar because it's this, that idea is in Paul Graham's essays over and over again. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:21 David Senra I want to tie this all together to Paul Graham's essays as well, where he talks about says, listen, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google are wealthy because they were the first investors in Google.
- ▶ 41:34 David Senra And there's just a few sentences later on in the chapter that made me think of when Paul Graham writes in the essay, uh, Schlepp Blindness, talks about problems that are so difficult that people like they're hiding in plain sight. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:20 David Senra This is gonna, again, tie into what, um, the fact that, uh, Paul Graham writes in his essays that on the Y Combinator application, they ask more about the relationship between co-founders than anything else, and this is why. 2 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays Part III
- ▶ 1:40 David Senra At ViaWeb, which was Paul's startup that he sold to Yahoo, at ViaWeb, we had one programmer who was a sort of monster of productivity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:09 David Senra Now he gets to the part of the essay on working harder, which is something that he references a lot in a bunch of his essays. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 David Senra If you don't know what Paul Graham is talking about, you will see Sam Walton experiment decade after decade of trying to find a new kind of store.
- ▶ 8:59 David Senra He very next paragraph. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:51 David Senra So there's an excerpt from the book I'm going to talk to you about today, which is a collection of Paul Graham's essays. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:26 David Senra When it comes to code for, so in Paul's case, whatever you and I are building, right?
- ▶ 21:41 David Senra He wrote it this back in September, 2001. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:44 David Senra Okay, so I want to jump to Paul's essay, Mind the Gap. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:12 David Senra But, ah, it's actually Paul Graham on stage. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:21 David Senra So before I jump into his next essay, which is on beating the averages, I want to read, I have notes on this, this, um, podcast Paul was on back in 2009. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:34 David Senra Ok, so now I want to jump to Paul's essay called Taste for Makers. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:11 David Senra Then he brings up a main theme that he repeats over and over again in different essays, different time periods. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:20 David Senra Enzo Ferrari came to the exact same conclusion that Paul Graham is at this section in the essay. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:40 David Senra Prince, all of his, all of Paul's essays, you know, probably have to be a multi, you know, multi-book series, but I would love to own them in, you know, physical book form. 2 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays Part II
- ▶ 5:48 David Senra The importance of founders knowing other founders is repeated a lot in Paul's essays. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:59 David Senra So I have spent the last few weeks living inside the mind of Paul Graham. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:08 David Senra That's episode one 91, and I think I went back and read my notes from the Almanac and Naval, and there's a lot of overlap between Naval's perspective and Paul. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:55 David Senra But the problem, what, what the point Paul makes here is that when you reframe the money, leaving your bank account as an investment, it bypasses these alarms.
- ▶ 30:43 David Senra And then he gives the greatest illustration of this idea and why it's so powerful and what he means by describing 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:45 David Senra It's essentially Paul giving us a summary of what he's learned by building Y Combinator. 10 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 8:49 David Senra It's called How to Do What You Love, and it was written by Paul Graham. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:26 David Senra And so Paul goes into one of the things he learned from this conversation that he's having with his father. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:46 David Senra And I don't know if it's in this essay or other ones, but what Paul has a great ability to do, because think about it, he's taking something he's thought about for a very long time, maybe distilled it down to, you know, two pages,… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:23 David Senra And I just think a lot of the ideas, like he's going to start this essay saying, everybody says it's so terrible. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:10 David Senra Uh, it's a conversation on the Y Combinator podcast with Paul Graham. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:36 David Senra And Paul says this is an essay derived from a talk at the 2009 startup school. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:00 David Senra And so one of the founders emailed Paul, said, when someone is determined, there's still a danger that they'll follow a long, hard path that ultimately leads nowhere. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:22 David Senra He says, I noticed a pattern in the least successful startups that we funded. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:15 David Senra And you're seeing Paul say the same things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:24 David Senra Although I'm interested, I wonder, because of Paul's relationship with Stripe, I wonder if there's anybody at Stripe Press that is thinking about turning, I would love, I know he did Hackers and Painters, but I would love like a book… 3 times in the scene