Paul Graham: Even the Smartest People Must Learn Taste in Problems From Experience
ycombinator · x · 2026-10-06
Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham argues that one crucial lesson even the smartest people only learn through experience is taste in problems: some "juicy" problems tend to lead to interesting discoveries, while "nasty" ones rarely go anywhere. Choosing what to work on, he suggests, is itself a judgment that must be deliberately cultivated.
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