by Paul Graham
Graham argues that hackers and painters share more in common than hackers and engineers. Great software, like great art, comes from taste, empathy, and the courage to challenge conventional thinking.
In this collection, Hackers and Painters references 1 other book and is cited by 4 other books.
It draws on The Mythical Man-Month.
It’s picked up by Working in Public, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives and Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days and 1 others.
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Graham references Brooks on small teams outperforming large.
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Eghbal references Graham's Hackers and Painters on open source culture.
Levy draws on the hacker-founder archetype Paul Graham articulated in Hackers and Painters to characterize Page and Brin's engineering mindset
Livingston's husband Paul Graham wrote the foreword and YC essays that became Hackers and Painters, and this book operationalizes his thesis that great startups come from great hackers by letting those hackers tell their own origin stories
Features Paul Graham and the Hackers and Painters milieu, using YC-era founders to trace the continuity between PARC-era hackers and modern startup culture
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