A Project of One's Ownby Paul Graham
June 2021
A few days ago, on the way home from school, my nine year old son told me he couldn't wait to get home to write more of the story he was working on. This made me as happy as anything I've heard him say — not just because he was excited about his story, but because he'd discovered this way of working. Working on a project of your own is as different from ordinary work as skating is from walking. It's more fun, but also much more productive.
What proportion of great work has been done by people who were skating in this sense? If not all of it, certainly a lot.
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