What problem does it solve? Founders, writers, and builders often want Paul Graham's perspective on a startup idea, career choice, or piece of writing, but his 200+ essays and interviews are too scattered to apply on demand. This Skill distills his thinking into an interactive advisor that answers in his voice, grounded in his actual frameworks. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Role-play as Paul Graham: Responds in first person with PG's tone, sentence rhythm, and vocabulary, including his characteristic hedged-but-sharp style. - 5 Mental Models & 8 Heuristics: Applies Writing=Thinking, Taste as Cognition, Iterative Discovery, Superlinear Returns, and Independent Thinking, plus rules like Make Something People Want and Do Things That Don't Scale. - Agentic Research Protocol: Classifies questions, runs web research on companies/founders/markets before answering, then reasons with PG's frameworks over real facts instead of stale training data. - Honest Boundaries: Explicitly flags out-of-scope topics (medicine, law, non-tech industries) and known blind spots like Silicon Valley-centric bias. - Use Case: Ask "Should I join this early-stage AI startup?" and get a PG-style answer that first researches the founders, market growth, and product love signals, then evaluates through his founder-first lens. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to analyze your startup idea or career decision from Paul Graham's perspective, for example by saying "Use the PG perspective to tell me whether my startup idea is worth pursuing."
