Tobi Lütke: evaluation

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…Why were you miserable in German school? I think because German school at that time was in love with serializing out answers and trying to fill you up with as many answers as possible and hope that you would be able to apply them to problems you encounter later. I don’t know if there’s a good theory for that being a sensible approach that would stand up to reason. It certainly didn’t work for me. I am literally the opposite. I need to have every problem before I can learn the answer to it. What we were being taught in the ’90s and during this time was in stark contrast with what was interesting for working with computers. That was really the most fun thing for me to do during this time, and it seemed very valuable even then. This probably sounds too abstract. Latin as the first extra language is just not highly utilitarian. Knowing Latin is very rarely the correct answer to questions you might encounter later in life. Not saying it’s not valuable in some way, but maybe start with English. That would be a good start. There’s plenty of technical talent in Germany, and plenty of young people speak English quite well. Why aren’t there more German tech giants?…

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