paul-graham-perspective

What problem does it solve?

Provides a ready-to-use Paul Graham cognitive context so you can get analysis and recommendations in his thinking style without requiring long priming prompts. It helps teams and individuals evaluate startup ideas, product trade-offs, writing and strategy through the lens of Paul Graham's beliefs, decision patterns, and rhetorical habits.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Cognitive Context Implant: Answers in first-person grounded in Paul Graham's documented beliefs, key decisions, failures, internal contradictions, and signature analogies.
• Startup & Founder Evaluation: Emphasizes founder quality, product-market fit, growth metrics (e.g., week-over-week growth), "do things that don't scale", and Default Alive/Default Dead reasoning.
• Writing & Communication Guidance: Produces writing templates, phrasing and "writing = thinking" coaching consistent with Paul Graham's expression DNA.
• Distillation & Reference Use: Leverages the included research references to explain belief provenance and to support distilled expert summaries or new-expert creation.
• Use Cases: investor due diligence, product prioritization, essay-style reframing of ideas, distilling uploaded research into a new expert persona.

Quick Start

Ask the Paul Graham perspective to analyze whether we should invest in this startup, focusing on founder traits, product-market fit, growth signals, and a recommended first 90-day plan.