#246 — May 5, 2026 by Evan Chen

Favorite quote I re-read today from Hackers and Painters:

Maybe it would be good for hackers to act more like painters, and regularly start over from scratch, instead of continuing to work for years on one project, and trying to incorporate all their later ideas as revisions.

The things I've built during my mid-late 20's are so much better than the things I built during my early 20's. It's not close.