On my PC the menu is so small I can barely read the text, I think because he uses a gif as a menu combined with an image map. Wtf.
On the main page there's some images without clear purpose and links with the titles "Taste", "Smart" and "Weird". No idea what that is about.
I opened the site on my phone and it renders the page in the upper left corner and I have to zoom in to see what it shows.
Is this the site which you think he should take design cues from? In my view the PaulGraham.com site is a complete train wreck.
This is legitimately the worst looking and confusing site I’ve seen in a while, and should be used as an example of how to not design a site :)
Even the blog post themselves are pretty bad with left-aligned columns and the most low-contrast header (the “P A U L G R A H A M”) on the top. It looks like some sort of CSS mishap rather than something deliberately designed.
In fact, perhaps if he wasn't wasting his storage space with pretty but giant and irrelevant photos, the reduction in storage space wouldn't be as much of an issue.