Let's take a look at pg's most recent essays:
1. This one, which is basically saying one of the most important things for society is coming up with new ideas. Not hard to see why someone who built his life around startups would think this.
2. "Weird Languages", touting the benefits of Lisp among others. Kinda feel like "nuff said" on this one.
3. "How to work hard", which I read basically as an overview of "how to work like you're running a startup".
4. "A project of one's own". How you should work toward your own goals, instead of someone else's.
Again, I don't really disagree with pg's essays, I just no longer find them interesting because I think they are now utterly predictable at this point.
I'll give you a concrete example: while I was definitely a tech and startup fan boy through the early 00s, I definitely have some amount of disillusionment around the whole startup ecosystem, and its effects on society. I never hear pg talk about really any of the downsides or regrets about the startup ecosystem that he helped unleash.
If I already know pretty much exactly what someone is going to say (and nearly all of it is self-serving), I'm not going to be that interested in listening.
1. This one, which is basically saying one of the most important things for society is coming up with new ideas. Not hard to see why someone who built his life around startups would think this.
2. "Weird Languages", touting the benefits of Lisp among others. Kinda feel like "nuff said" on this one.
3. "How to work hard", which I read basically as an overview of "how to work like you're running a startup".
4. "A project of one's own". How you should work toward your own goals, instead of someone else's.
Again, I don't really disagree with pg's essays, I just no longer find them interesting because I think they are now utterly predictable at this point.
I'll give you a concrete example: while I was definitely a tech and startup fan boy through the early 00s, I definitely have some amount of disillusionment around the whole startup ecosystem, and its effects on society. I never hear pg talk about really any of the downsides or regrets about the startup ecosystem that he helped unleash.
If I already know pretty much exactly what someone is going to say (and nearly all of it is self-serving), I'm not going to be that interested in listening.