"The intoxicating delight of sudden understanding"1 best describes what I felt the first time I derived the Y Combinator (guided by the Little Schemer book). Learning Lisp (by way of Scheme) is how I first came about Paul Graham's essays. Which was, of course, a gateway drug to startups.
Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator
Tue Sep 25 2018 by Amjad Masad
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