Relates to an earlier discussion on the role of liberal arts, I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580176 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580176

Relates to an earlier discussion on the role of liberal arts, I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580176 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580176 And, now that I think about, as Z is a college drop-out, maybe the role of higher education in general. The ideas presented in all of the works you cite are ones someone focused on an engineering degree or a tech business to the exclusion of all else might have been exposed to in a broad education. And not just that, but the kind of training that teaches you to think more broadly, in terms other than the metrics that Z seems to restrict himself to.