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Paul GrahamLife & Learning6 min read

How to Get New Ideas

A brief, durable essay on where new ideas actually come from — they don't pop into your head, they accumulate at the edges of problems you can't stop thinking about.

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A hand-curated stream of the internet’s best writing. Feeds are tuned to show you what’s new; Discover is a counterweight, tuned for what’s best — essays, ideas, and highlights that have stood the test of time, one wonderful piece at a time.

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Discover is a free, hand-curated stream of the internet’s best writing — essays, ideas, and highlights that have stood the test of time, selected by the team behind Linkwise, the AI read-it-later app.

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Every piece is hand-picked by human curators. There is no engagement algorithm — we look for writing that stays worth reading years after it was published, across ideas, science, business, culture, and more.

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