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Podcast: Great Books Distilled: Summaries of Bestselling Business and Investing Books
Episode: Trailer - Essay Breakdown: “How To Do Great Work” by Paul Graham
Description: Paul Graham's essay on "How To Do Great Work" begins with the following words:If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it. Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise shows is that it does have a definite shape; it's not just a point labelled "work hard." The following...