Paul Graham
Writing and Speaking
Write Simply
The Age of the Essay
Early work
What doesn't seem like work?
The Top Idea in Your Mind
Cities and Ambition
Taste for Makers
Good and bad procrastination
The still life effect
How to do what you love
Hackers and Painters
On the "Building" of Software and Websites
You are agreeing to make a Thing
The Thing-deadline calculus
Trees and graphs
Content as value
The most important consideration for any software or web excursion is content: the content of the text and other communicative media, as well as the content of the code that executes the business processes. The ability to tick off a page or piece of functionality as being done only produces a nominal successful result; the careful crafting of what one of these objects says produces a real one.