What I learned from reading How To Do Great Work by Paul Graham.
I just finished listening to this entire episode, and I mentioned in the episode that I was not expecting to do another Paul Graham episode, especially an episode on a single one of his essays.
A few months ago, I spent three weeks reading and rereading all Paul Graham's essays.
I did three episodes on them.
It's episode 275, 276, and 277.
But I suspected that this essay, how to do great work, was something that was really special because the sheer amount of people that listened to this podcast that sent me this essay, and as soon as I started reading it, I got excited about it.
And that's a good indication that I should be making an episode on it right now.
And just one quick thing before we jump into the episode, I made something that is exclusively for enthusiasts of founders, for people that completely understand the benefit of this kind of crazy, intense studying of the great people that came before us and how valuable it is to actually apply what they learned to whatever it is that you and I are working on.
If that is you, I highly recommend that you sign up for the private founders AMA feed.
I've been making short episodes every weekend based on questions that I get from other members.
If you become a member, you'll be able to ask me questions directly.
There's actually a private email address that you get access to in the confirmation email.
I read every single one of these emails myself.
I do not have an assistant look over them.
I read every single one.
The questions I get from these emails I turn into short AMA episodes, so that actually allows other members to learn from the questions of other members.
You can also add your name and a link to your website with your question so other members can check out what you're working on.
That feature alone, it's worth the investment.
So far I made 31 episodes.
I plan on making several episodes every week.
If you consider yourself an enthusiast of Founders podcasts, highly recommend that you become a member, and you can join by using the link that's in the show notes on your podcast player, or by going to founderspodcast.com dot how to do great work if you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like?