Paul Graham's "How to Do Great Work" is excellent.
40 of my favorite ideas from the essay:
1. Curiosity is the best guide.
2. Being prolific is underrated.
3. If you asked an oracle the secret to doing great work and the oracle replied with a single word, my bet would be on "curiosity."
4. Seek out the best colleagues.
5. Make something you yourself want.
6. If you're interested you're not astray.
7. Unfashionable problems are undervalued.
8. Curiosity and originality are closely related.
9. Your curiosity never lies, and it knows more than you do about what's worth paying attention to.
10. Never abandon the root node.
11. If you don't try to be the best you won't even be good.
12. Work with people you want to become like, because you will.
13. Interest will drive you to work harder than mere diligence ever could.
14. Great work happens by focusing consistently on something you're genuinely interested in.
15. Great work usually entails spending what would seem to most people an unreasonable amount of time on a problem.
16. We underestimate the cumulative effect of work. Writing a page a day doesn't sound like much, but if you do it every day you'll write a book a year. That's the key: consistency.
17. People think big ideas are answers, but often the real insight was in the question.
18. Something that grows exponentially can become so valuable that it's worth making an extraordinary effort to get it started.
19. Some of the biggest discoveries come from noticing connections between different fields.
20. It's a great thing to be rich in unanswered questions.
21. What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for.
22. Boldly chase outlier ideas, even if other people aren't interested in them — in fact, especially if they aren't.
23. A field should become increasingly interesting as you learn more about it. If it doesn't, it's probably not for you.
24. One sign that you're suited for some kind of work is when you like even the parts that other people find tedious.
25. Ask yourself: Am I working on what I most want to work on?
26. The best ideas have implications in many different areas.
27. Original ideas don't come from trying to have original ideas. They come from trying to build or understand something slightly too difficult.
28. Great work often comes from returning to a question you first noticed years before and couldn't stop thinking about.
29. Big things start small. The initial versions of big things were often just experiments, or side projects, or talks, which then grew into something bigger.
30. You can't have a lot of good ideas without also having a lot of bad ones.
31. Begin by trying the simplest thing that could possibly work. Surprisingly often, it does.
32. Originality is the presence of new ideas, not the absence of old ones.
33. Husband your morale. It's the basis of everything when you're working on ambitious projects.
34. Avoid letting intermediaries come between you and your audience.
35. Don't marry someone who doesn't understand that you need to work, or sees your work as competition for your attention.
36. If you're ambitious, you need to work; it's almost like a medical condition
37. Seek out the people who increase your energy and avoid those who decrease it.
38. If you do anything well enough you'll make it prestigious.
39. What might seem to be merely the initial step — deciding what to work on — is in a sense the key to the whole game.
40. At each stage do whatever seems most interesting and gives you the best options for the future. I call this approach "staying upwind." This is how most people who've done great work seem to have done it.
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