What Tech Startups Are Really Like

*Basically, founding a start-up company almost exactly like winging it in the world of art or literature, except without any art or literature.

*It's not a job, it's an adventure.

http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

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"The Super-Pattern

"There were a few other patterns, but these were the biggest. One's first thought when looking at them all is to ask if there's a super-pattern, a pattern to the patterns.

"I saw it immediately, and so did a YC founder I read the list to. These are supposed to b...