Alert: This is a MVP and still a work-in-progress but I wanted to share my current implementation. Sorry if too messy, but following the very YC advise: "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late". If you have any ideas, suggestions, curses or feedback in order to improve the code, please don't hesitate in opening an issue or PR. They'll be very welcomed!

Download the complete collection of 193 essays from Paul Graham website and export them in EPUB and Markdown for easy AFK reading. Running wc it turned out to be a whooping ~466K words (a The Lord of the Rings saga in total length) but about crazy travels in the startup worlds. I used the RSS originally made by Aaron Swartz, feedparser, html2text and Unidecode libraries for data cleaning. To create the EPUB files you should have installed pandoc to properly execute the script.

sudo apt-get install python3.8-venv
python3.8 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
mkdir essays
python graham.py # wait for it
make epub

• ✅ 001 This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California
• ✅ 002 Programming Bottom-Up
• ❌ 003 Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp, (I/O operation on * closed file)
• ❌ 004 Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp, (I/O operation on * closed file)
• ✅ 005 Lisp for Web-Based Applications
• ✅ 006 Beating the Averages
• ✅ 007 Java's Cover
• ✅ 008 Being Popular
• ✅ 009 Five Questions about Language Design
• ✅ 010 The Roots of Lisp
• ✅ 011 The Other Road Ahead
• ✅ 012 What Made Lisp Different
• ✅ 013 Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
• ✅ 014 Taste for Makers
• ✅ 015 What Languages Fix
• ✅ 016 Succinctness is Power
• ✅ 017 Revenge of the Nerds
• ✅ 018 A Plan for Spam
• ✅ 019 Design and Research
• ✅ 020 Better Bayesian Filtering
• ✅ 021 Why Nerds are Unpopular
• ✅ 022 The Hundred-Year Language
• ✅ 023 If Lisp is So Great
• ✅ 024 Hackers and Painters
• ✅ 025 Filters that Fight Back
• ✅ 026 What You Can't Say
• ✅ 027 The Word "Hacker"
• ✅ 028 How to Make Wealth
• ✅ 029 Mind the Gap
• ✅ 030 Great Hackers
• ✅ 031 The Python Paradox
• ✅ 032 The Age of the Essay
• ✅ 033 What the Bubble Got Right
• ✅ 034 A Version 1.0
• ✅ 035 Bradley's Ghost
• ✅ 036 It's Charisma, Stupid
• ✅ 037 Made in USA
• ✅ 038 What You'll Wish You'd Known
• ✅ 039 How to Start a Startup
• ✅ 040 A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
• ✅ 041 Undergraduation
• ✅ 042 Writing, Briefly
• ✅ 043 Return of the Mac
• ✅ 044 Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
• ✅ 045 The Submarine
• ✅ 046 Hiring is Obsolete
• ✅ 047 What Business Can Learn from Open Source
• ✅ 048 After the Ladder
• ✅ 049 Inequality and Risk
• ✅ 050 What I Did this Summer
• ✅ 051 Ideas for Startups
• ✅ 052 The Venture Capital Squeeze
• ✅ 053 How to Fund a Startup
• ✅ 054 Web 2.0
• ✅ 055 Good and Bad Procrastination
• ✅ 056 How to Do What You Love
• ✅ 057 Why YC
• ✅ 058 6,631,372
• ✅ 059 Are Software Patents Evil?
• ✅ 060 See Randomness
• ✅ 061 The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
• ✅ 062 How to Be Silicon Valley
• ✅ 063 Why Startups Condense in America
• ✅ 064 The Power of the Marginal
• ✅ 065 The Island Test
• ✅ 066 Copy What You Like
• ✅ 067 How to Present to Investors
• ✅ 068 A Student's Guide to Startups
• ✅ 069 The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
• ✅ 070 How Art Can Be Good
• ✅ 071 Learning from Founders
• ✅ 072 Is It Worth Being Wise?
• ✅ 073 Why to Not Not Start a Startup
• ✅ 074 Microsoft is Dead
• ✅ 075 Two Kinds of Judgement
• ✅ 076 The Hacker's Guide to Investors
• ✅ 077 An Alternative Theory of Unions
• ✅ 078 The Equity Equation
• ✅ 079 Stuff
• ✅ 080 Holding a Program in One's Head
• ✅ 081 How Not to Die
• ✅ 082 News from the Front
• ✅ 083 How to Do Philosophy
• ✅ 084 The Future of Web Startups
• ✅ 085 Why to Move to a Startup Hub
• ✅ 086 Six Principles for Making New Things
• ✅ 087 Trolls
• ✅ 088 A New Venture Animal
• ✅ 089 You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
• ✅ 090 How to Disagree
• ✅ 091 Some Heroes
• ✅ 092 Why There Aren't More Googles
• ✅ 093 Be Good
• ✅ 094 Lies We Tell Kids
• ✅ 095 Disconnecting Distraction
• ✅ 096 Cities and Ambition
• ✅ 097 The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
• ✅ 098 A Fundraising Survival Guide
• ✅ 099 Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
• ✅ 100 The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
• ✅ 101 The High-Res Society
• ✅ 102 Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
• ✅ 103 After Credentials
• ✅ 104 Keep Your Identity Small
• ✅ 105 Startups in 13 Sentences
• ✅ 106 What I've Learned from Hacker News
• ✅ 107 Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.
• ✅ 108 Why TV Lost
• ✅ 109 How to Be an Angel Investor
• ✅ 110 Relentlessly Resourceful
• ✅ 111 Five Founders
• ✅ 112 The Founder Visa
• ✅ 113 Why Twitter is a Big Deal
• ✅ 114 A Local Revolution?
• ✅ 115 Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
• ✅ 116 Ramen Profitable
• ✅ 117 The Trouble with the Segway
• ✅ 118 What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley
• ✅ 119 The Anatomy of Determination
• ✅ 120 The List of N Things
• ✅ 121 Post-Medium Publishing
• ✅ 122 Persuade xor Discover
• ✅ 123 What Startups Are Really Like
• ✅ 124 Apple's Mistake
• ✅ 125 Organic Startup Ideas
• ✅ 126 How to Lose Time and Money
• ✅ 127 The Top Idea in Your Mind
• ✅ 128 The Acceleration of Addictiveness
• ✅ 129 The Future of Startup Funding
• ✅ 130 What Happened to Yahoo
• ✅ 131 High Resolution Fundraising
• ✅ 132 Where to See Silicon Valley
• ✅ 133 The New Funding Landscape
• ✅ 134 What We Look for in Founders
• ✅ 135 Tablets
• ✅ 136 Founder Control
• ✅ 137 Subject: Airbnb
• ✅ 138 The Patent Pledge
• ✅ 139 Why Startup Hubs Work
• ✅ 140 Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
• ✅ 141 Schlep Blindness
• ✅ 142 A Word to the Resourceful
• ✅ 143 Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
• ✅ 144 Defining Property
• ✅ 145 How Y Combinator Started
• ✅ 146 Writing and Speaking
• ✅ 147 The Top of My Todo List
• ✅ 148 Black Swan Farming
• ✅ 149 Startup = Growth
• ✅ 150 The Hardware Renaissance
• ✅ 151 How to Get Startup Ideas
• ✅ 152 Startup Investing Trends
• ✅ 153 Do Things that Don't Scale
• ✅ 154 How to Convince Investors
• ✅ 155 Investor Herd Dynamics
• ✅ 156 How to Raise Money
• ✅ 157 Before the Startup
• ✅ 158 Mean People Fail
• ✅ 159 The Fatal Pinch
• ✅ 160 How You Know
• ✅ 161 How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
• ✅ 162 Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
• ✅ 163 Don't Talk to Corp Dev
• ✅ 164 What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
• ✅ 165 The Ronco Principle
• ✅ 166 What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?
• ✅ 167 Change Your Name
• ✅ 168 Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
• ✅ 169 Default Alive or Default Dead?
• ✅ 170 Write Like You Talk
• ✅ 171 A Way to Detect Bias
• ✅ 172 Jessica Livingston
• ✅ 173 The Refragmentation
• ✅ 174 Economic Inequality
• ✅ 175 Life is Short
• ✅ 176 How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
• ✅ 177 The Risk of Discovery
• ❌ 178 Charisma / Power, ([Errno 2] No such file or * directory: './essays/178_Charisma / Power.md')
• ✅ 179 General and Surprising
• ✅ 180 The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
• ✅ 181 Novelty and Heresy
• ✅ 182 The Lesson to Unlearn
• ✅ 183 Having Kids
• ✅ 184 Fashionable Problems
• ✅ 185 The Two Kinds of Moderate
• ✅ 186 Haters
• ✅ 187 Being a Noob
• ✅ 188 How to Write Usefully
• ✅ 189 Coronavirus and Credibility
• ✅ 190 Orthodox Privilege
• ✅ 191 The Four Quadrants of Conformism
• ✅ 192 Modeling a Wealth Tax
• ✅ 193 Early Work