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Paul GrahamA compact essay on why the relationship between effort and reward in many creative and technical fields is not linear but superlinear — and what that implies for how you allocate your time.
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
Every layer we stack between ourselves and the metal eventually breaks. The fix isn't a better abstraction—it's knowing what's underneath when it does.
The programmer using a less powerful language is at a disadvantage, like a soldier fighting on terrain chosen by the other side.
The Blub paradox in one line. Every team defaulting to Python or Java fights on terrain chosen by the other side. The choice of weapons is itself strategic.