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Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent

Conversations with Tyler

CHAPTER

The Dilemma Between Brand and Craft

You invent some shtick, and then technically it's called a signature style. So you paint with this special shtick. You have to be in the 1920s were good enough to make painting like Cezanne fashionable. Why can't we build good British country homes anymore? Or do you think we can? There's nothing stopping you. Except the planning people. It's one of the worst countries. If they had America's zoning rules here, the entire countryside would be plastered with houses. The difference in value between agricultural and building land is 100 X or something like that. And this place is small.

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