This piece was originally published by Stephen Blackwell in The New Criterion. I do not own the rights to this work. It serves as an earnest articulation of my own thoughts concerning education.
An interview with Trevor Blackwell, Co-Founder of YC. He is also a roboticist who in 2007 built the first dynamically balancing biped robot. He has published papers on congestion control in high speed wide area networks, signaling protocol architecture, and file system performance.