Paul Graham
Liveessays on paulgraham.com
Co-founder of Y Combinator, creator of Hacker News, Lisp programmer, essayist. His essays on startups, programming, and independent thinking have shaped a generation of founders.
8 AI skills included
Works with Claude, Cursor, Gemini CLI
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Explore this brain
Browse all 213 atoms, connections, and thinking patterns. This is what you get.
8 thinking skills included
Chain skills into workflows: Decision (/advise → /debate → /coach), Learning (/teach → /evolve → /coach), Creative (/surprise → /connect → /predict).
/advise
Strategic counsel on your decisions
/teach
Learn concepts through their lens
/debate
Stress-test ideas or pit positions head-to-head
/connect
Find unexpected bridges or synthesize ideas
/evolve
Track how their thinking changed over time
/surprise
Surface an unexpected insight
/coach
No answers — just the questions they’d ask you
/predict
Trace second and third-order effects
What's in the pack
Built from public sources only
This brain was derived exclusively from freely available, public resources — interviews, podcasts, free newsletters, public talks, and blog posts. No transcripts from commercial works or paywalled essays were used. Where book ideas appear, they come from public discourse: reviews, author interviews, press coverage, and widely discussed concepts.
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Download the pack and drop brain-context.md into your AI tool's project context.