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Paul Graham Dec 19, 2022

I'm in the middle of writing a new essay, and there was one awkward paragraph that I just couldn't seem to fix. Eventually I realized it was because the underlying idea was wrong, and that the real solution was to delete it.

This often happens. Trying to make the sentences perfect is not as shallow an undertaking as it sounds. It also exposes the bad ideas.

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Geet Khosla

@paulg there is so much work in simple tasks, like editing a sentence or writing one that we often ignore. trying to lean into the harder and important aspects of building and learning.