Reading Paul Graham

I was reading the blog of David Chapman, who is a practitioner of Dzogchen, a lesser known aspect of Tibetan Buddhism (http://approachingaro.org/). In one of his essays he linked to Paul Graham’s site. I had no idea who Paul Graham was, but I was fascinated by some of his writings and some of his links:

1. Graham posts the text of Richard Hamming’s apparently famous lecture. While I don’t always agree with the ‘we need more ambitious super-heroes’ tone, there is lots to consider in here: http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html

2. In his RAQ section, Graham says some very interesting things about teaching: http://www.paulgraham.com/raq.html

3. There are lots of essays here. I particularly like the one on procrastination, but they are all interesting, even if you are not a computer programmer: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.htm

Thanks David!

~ by Daniel Mroz on November 1, 2009.