Creativity

Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?Original essay: November 2021 · AI-written directory summary

An argument that judgments of artistic quality are not entirely arbitrary. Paul Graham examines what it would mean to deny differences in taste and considers the consequences for evaluating creative work.

Essay · Design · Creativity

How to Do Great WorkOriginal essay: July 2023 · AI-written directory summary

A broad essay on choosing and pursuing ambitious work. Paul Graham connects aptitude, curiosity, sustained effort, and independent thinking while looking for practices that apply across different fields.

Essay · Creativity · Learning

Genuine Creativity is Your New Moat

An InventBuild.Studio essay argues that as LLMs make competent execution abundant, the scarce resource is the willingness to question assumptions and invent genuinely new approaches. Drawing on the Flash-era web as a model of tool-enabled creative explosion, it contends that the sustainable competitive advantage is not a single novel idea but a continuous habit of experimentation.

Essay · Creativity · AI · Product Design · Startups