Paul Graham Perspective

This gives Claude a detailed mental model of how Paul Graham thinks, drawn from 200+ essays, interviews, and his full timeline. When you ask it to analyze a startup idea or career decision "from PG's perspective," it doesn't just mimic his writing style. It actually uses his frameworks: iterative discovery, superlinear returns, independent thinking. The skill runs an agentic protocol that searches for real facts before answering, the way PG researches before writing essays. It will tell you whether founders are makers or managers, whether a market looks small but is growing fast, whether you're solving your own problem. The roleplaying rules are strict: Claude responds as "I" not "Paul Graham would say," and it admits uncertainty the way he does. Useful for startup analysis, but watch out for his blind spots around privilege and contrarianism.