“What we think about in the soul in the morning is much more important than you might think. This is exactly the time when good ideas come to mind. I will say more, you are unlikely to succeed in a business that you don’t think about in your soul.
- Paul Graham

Good afternoon, harabrachiteli.

On September 1, 2015, thanks to the kicks of the guys from #tceh, I ordered all the articles by Paul Graham in Russian at that time ( about 60 ). In this publication I want to share what happened in 13 months.

At the beginning of September 2015 I read about 10 articles by Paul Graham, now my number of articles is 125 .
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We also managed to finish the translation of Graham 's book “Hackers and Artists” to victory , and now we are in correspondence with the O'Reilly publishing house on the topic of publication in Russian.

Graham's translation translation updates and the history of searching / creating these translations is under the cut.

For the support of the release of transfers, I thank the company Edison , which has developed a system for conducting online lotteries for an African gaming company and has automated all the tedious routine for the trading network.

First round
Just search for "Paul Graham". As separate articles and collections fell out, sometimes with broken links, but the webarchive helped. The first 20 pages of the search yielded about 60 articles.

Round two
I noticed that on the Graham website at the end of the article there is sometimes a link to a Russian translation. (Also often broken). Then I remembered how to write a complex query in Google with the search on the site - site: paulgraham.com "russian translation" . This added to the total score of 10 more articles.

Round three
I noticed that bona fide translators insert a link to the source at the end of the articles, and then I went through all (about 100) not translated articles, entered their address in a search engine and set the parameter “search only in Russian”. Result +30 articles.

Round four
Two articles appeared online as translated (even on Graham’s site), but there was no way I could access them. Challenge. One article was on a personal site, the registration term of which has ended. I found the name of the site owner. Found his profile vkontakte, but he was abandoned. I found his friends online and sent a message to 20 people that I was looking for an author (friends, quarrel for anxiety), after 15 minutes they gave me a link to the live profile of the author, wrote him a request, the author kindly agreed to dig into his old HDD. In the end - the article "Two types of judgments . " Thank you siberiano

Round five
One article was published on Habré (even before the appearance of mirrors), but the author ( RedRed ) was banned. Then Shoohurt helped me and pulled the text “Ideas for an organic startup” from the bottom of the sea

Translations
Many thanks to those who have connected their forces and took up the translation of articles.
I thank Shchekotov Yana, Artem unknown, knagaev , fantom, young programmers of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Andrew Tchernov, Alexander Volosevich, Find_The_Truth and everyone I did not remember. Who else wants to join the common cause, write in a personal.

Essay

How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub ( How to make Pittsburgh a startup hub )
Life is Short ( Life is really very short )
Economic Inequality ( Economic Inequality Part 1 , Part 2 )
The Refragmentation ( no translation )
Jessica Livingston ( Talk about Jessica Livingston )
A Way to Detect Bias ( Method to reveal bias )
Write Like You Talk ( Write as you say )
Default Alive or Default Dead? ( partial translation )
Why is it profitable for a startup to be generous?
Change Your Name
What is this Microsoft Altair Basic of? ( What did Altair BASIC mean to Microsoft? )
The Ronco Principle ( Ronco Principles )
What Doesn't Seem Like Work? ( Minor oddities: how to find the business of your life )
Don't Talk to Corp Dev ( Do not talk to corporate development specialists )
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In ( no translation )
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World ( How to stay an expert in an ever-changing world )
How You Know
The Fatal Pinch ( Last Drop )
Mean People Fail ( Why do scoundrels lose? )
Before the Startup ( Before a startup - part one , Before a startup - part two )
How to Raise Money (“ How to raise money .” Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3. )
Investor Herd Dynamics ( Investor as a herd animal )
How to Convince Investors ( How to convince investors )
Do Things that Don't Scale ( Do things that do not scale , an alternative , on Habré )
Startup Investing Trends ( What has changed in the world of startups , Trends in investing in startups )
How to Get Startup Ideas (How to find an idea for a startup. Part one , part two , part three , part four ))
The Hardware Renaissance ( Iron Renaissance )
Startup = Growth ( Why "hairdresser" can not be a startup. Part 1 , In pursuit of growth. Part 2 )
Black Swan Farming ( How to distinguish brilliant business ideas from worthless ones )
The Top of My Todo List ( no translation )
Writing and Speaking ( How to write well and speak well )
Defining Property ( no translation )
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas ( Startling Ambitious Ideas )
A Word to the Resourceful
Schlep Blindness ( Boredom Blindness )
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998 ( no translation )
Why Startup Hubs Work ( How Startup Incubators Work )
The Patent Pledge ( no translation )
Subject: Airbnb ( no translation )
Founder Control ( Does the founder need to retain control of the company? )
Tablets (94% Tablets )
What we look for in Founders ( What are we looking for in startups and young entrepreneurs? )
The New Funding Landscape ( no translation )
Where to See Silicon Valley ( no translation )
High Resolution Fundraising ( no translation )
What Happened to Yahoo ( What happened to Yahoo )
The Future of Startup Funding
The Acceleration of Addictiveness ( no translation )
The Top Idea in Your Mind (the main idea )
How to Lose Time and Money ( UPD September 7. How to lose time and money , an alternative to Giktatimes)
Organic Startup Ideas ( Ideas for an "organic" startup )
Apple's Mistake ( Apple Error )
What Startups Are Really Like ( What is the life of a real startup )
Persuade xor Discover ( Persuade XOR to describe )
Post-Medium Publishing ( no translation )
The List of N Things
The Anatomy of Determination ( Anatomy of Purpose )
What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley ( What Kate saw in Silicon Valley )
The Trouble with the Segway ( no translation )
Ramen Profitable ( Startup on Doshirak )
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule ( How a creator’s life differs from a manager’s )
A Local Revolution? ( no translation )
Why Twitter is a Big Deal ( no translation )
The Founder Visa ( no transfer )
Five Founders ( no translation )
Relentlessly Resourceful ( Be tirelessly resourceful. )
How to Be an Angel Investor ( What does it mean to be a “business angel” )
Why TV Lost ( Why TV died )
Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe. (25% Can I buy Silicon Valley? Possible )
What I've Learned from Hacker News ( What I learned from Hacker News )
Startups in 13 Sentences ( 13 main principles in the life of a startup )
Keep Your Identity Small ( translation )
After Credentials ( no translation )
Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession? ( Can venture capitalists be victims of a crisis? )
The High-Res Society ( High-tech Society )
The Other Half of Artists Ship ( Other side of "masterpieces in time" )
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy ( Why start a startup during a crisis )
A Fundraising Survival Guide ( Survival Guide for Investors )
The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company ( Management company with a combined insurance fund )
Cities and Ambition ( Cities and Ambitions )
Disconnecting Distraction ( Disconnecting from distractions )
Lies We Tell Kids ( False We Tell Children )
Be Good ( Be Good )
Why There Aren`t More Googles ( Why new Google does not appear )
Some Heroes (51% My Heroes )
How to Disagree ( How to disagree )
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss ( You Were Not Born Subordinate )
A New Venture Animal ( New Beast Among Venture Investors )
Trolls
Six Principles for Making New Things ( Six Principles for Making New Things )
Why to Move to a Startup Hub ( Why move a startup )
The Future of Web Startups ( The Future of Internet Startups )
How to Do Philosophy ( How are things with philosophy )
News from the Front ( no translation )
How Not to Die ( How not to die )
Holding a Program in One's Head ( Holding a project in my head )
Stuff ( Junk , Things )
The Equity Equation ( no translation )
An Alternative Theory of Unions ( no translation )
The Hacker's Guide to Investors ( no translation )
Two Kinds of Judgment ( Two types of judgments )
Microsoft is Dead ( Microsoft is dead )
Why not to start a startup?
Is it worth being wise? ( Is it worth being wise? )
Learning from Founders ( no translation )
How Art Can Be Good ( Art and Tricks )
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups ( Mistakes that kill startups )
A Student's Guide to Startups ( no translation )
How to Present to Investors ( How to make a presentation for investors )
Copy What You Like ( Copy what you like )
The Island Test ( no translation )
The Power of the Marginal ( The Power of the Marginal )
Why Startups Condense in America ( Why startups are concentrated in America )
How to Be Silicon Valley ( How to Be a Silicon Valley )
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn ( The most difficult lessons for startups )
See Randomness ( no translation )
Are Software Patents Evil? ( no translation )
6,631,372 ( no translation )
Why YC ( Why Y Combinator? )
How to Do What You Love ( How to do what you love but so that there is nothing for it )
Good and Bad Procrastination ( Good and bad procrastination )
Web 2.0 ( Web 2.0 )
How to Fund a Startup ( How to finance a startup? )
The Venture Capital Squeeze ( no translation )
Ideas for Startups ( Ideas for a startup )
What I Did This Summer ( no translation )
Inequality and Risk ( no translation )
After the Ladder ( no translation )
What Business Can Learn from Open Source ( What business could take from free software , Work real and imaginary , Bottom up )
Hiring is Obsolete ( Outdated )
The Submarine ( no translation )
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas ( Why smart ideas come to mind to smart people )
Return of the Mac ( Return of the Mac )
Writing, Briefly ( Briefly )
Undergraduation ( What you need to do in high school to become a good hacker )
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage ( no translation )
How to Start a Startup ( How to start a new business )
What You'll Wish You'd Known ( What you would like to know in advance )
Made in USA ( Made in the USA )
It's Charisma, Stupid ( no translation )
Bradley's Ghost ( no translation )
A Version 1.0 ( no translation )
What the Bubble Got Right ( What the Internet boom turned out to be right about )
The Age of the Essay ( Age of Essay )
The Python Paradox ( Python Paradox )
Great Hackers ( Crack Hackers , Part 2 )
Mind the Gap ( “Be careful, break” )
How to Make Wealth ( How to become rich )
The Word “Hacker” ( The word “hacker . ” )
What You Can't Say ( What You Can't Tell About )
Filters that Fight Back ( no translation )
Hackers and Painters (translation part 1 , part 2 , alternative )
If Lisp is So Great ( no translation )
The Hundred-Year Language ( programming languages ​​in a hundred years , the programming language of the future - today )
Why Nerds are Unpopular ( Why don't they like nerds , Why are nerds unpopular? )
Better Bayesian Filtering ( no translation )
Design and Research
A Plan for Spam ( Spam Plan )
Revenge of the Nerds (Revenge of the nerds, part 1 , part 2 , part 3 )
Succinctness is Power ( Short - Power )
What Languages ​​Fix ( What programming languages ​​solve )
Taste for Makers ( Taste is for creators )
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented ( no translation )
What Made Lisp Different ( no translation )
The Other Road Ahead ( Another Road to the Future , cont .)
The Roots of Lisp ( no translation )
Five Questions about Language Design ( no translation )
Being Popular (Being Popular, part 1 , part 2 )
Java's Cover ( no translation )
Beating the Averages ( Lisp: defeating mediocrity )
Lisp for Web Based Applications ( Lisp for Web Applications )
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
Programming Bottom-Up

Graham's Articles on Other Resources

• Emphasis on startup founders ( original )
• Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund ( Ideas for startups you want to invest money in )
• Copying startup ideas
• Paul Graham's wife says: "How I fell in love with the world of startups"

PS Habrapravodov Paul Graham's book "Hackers and Artists . " And pre-order publications in Russian.

PPS Who wants to help with translations, here are the nearest candidates:

• The equity equation
• After credentials
• Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
• The Acceleration of Addictiveness

(The Refragmentation is now at work)

Graham's students also try to write, it turns out to be awkward, but reading is useful - “The Macro: a guide for Y Combinator residents on corporate sales” .