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"The Best Essay" by Paul Graham (paulgraham.com)

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In which a man disappearing up his own asshole somehow fails to be interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

holy fuck this is meandering and written like shit. like, marvel at this early paragraph:

There is, and on the face of it, it seems almost identical to the one I started with. Instead of asking what would the best essay be? I should have asked how do you write essays well? Though these seem only phrasing apart, their answers diverge. The answer to the first question, as we've seen, isn't really about essay writing. The second question forces it to be.

this quote looks like nonsense because Paully’s paragraph flow is absolutely fucked and his sentence structure isn’t much better. did he copy Marc Andreessen‘s absolute garbage writing style, or did he figure he no longer needs to pay an editor now that he’s tricked my industry into thinking he’s a great writer?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Paul Graham needs to take a lesson from Jenny Nicholson and organize his thoughts into a numbered list.

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