Tim Sweeney

And if you learn any engineering discipline, you learn massive amounts of math and you learn the rigor of problem solving, you know, not just what you find from the Wikipedia article, but going through all the exercises of solving complex problems and building up series of solutions to derive an answer. It's valuable and it embodies the knowledge that you need as a programmer.

And if you learn any engineering discipline, you learn massive amounts of math and you learn the rigor of problem solving, you know, not just what you find from the Wikipedia article, but going through all the exercises of solving complex problems and building up series of solutions to derive an answer. It's valuable and it embodies the knowledge that you need as a programmer.

And if you learn any engineering discipline, you learn massive amounts of math and you learn the rigor of problem solving, you know, not just what you find from the Wikipedia article, but going through all the exercises of solving complex problems and building up series of solutions to derive an answer. It's valuable and it embodies the knowledge that you need as a programmer.

And, you know, people often go to university and think, okay, my goal here is to get good grades so I get a diploma and I prove to an employer that I'm valuable. Like, no, that's just kind of the superficial bookkeeping of the university. The real purpose of all of this is to learn. And whether you learn formally or you learn on your own, it's the learnings that are really valuable in a career.

And, you know, people often go to university and think, okay, my goal here is to get good grades so I get a diploma and I prove to an employer that I'm valuable. Like, no, that's just kind of the superficial bookkeeping of the university. The real purpose of all of this is to learn. And whether you learn formally or you learn on your own, it's the learnings that are really valuable in a career.

And, you know, people often go to university and think, okay, my goal here is to get good grades so I get a diploma and I prove to an employer that I'm valuable. Like, no, that's just kind of the superficial bookkeeping of the university. The real purpose of all of this is to learn. And whether you learn formally or you learn on your own, it's the learnings that are really valuable in a career.

And especially if you're going to be an entrepreneur, it's really knowing the stuff that matters and not having the diplomas and to... There's ever more pressure to rebuild society, more and more around credentials. Do you have this certificate? Do you have that proof?

And especially if you're going to be an entrepreneur, it's really knowing the stuff that matters and not having the diplomas and to... There's ever more pressure to rebuild society, more and more around credentials. Do you have this certificate? Do you have that proof?

And especially if you're going to be an entrepreneur, it's really knowing the stuff that matters and not having the diplomas and to... There's ever more pressure to rebuild society, more and more around credentials. Do you have this certificate? Do you have that proof?

But companies that are focused on just building great products and doing great things gravitate towards people who do the great work.

But companies that are focused on just building great products and doing great things gravitate towards people who do the great work.

But companies that are focused on just building great products and doing great things gravitate towards people who do the great work.

I think this is something that's kind of changing in America. There's so much focus on grades and homework and structure around kids' lives. When I was growing up, my neighbors and moms would feed them breakfast, and they'd be like, well, be back by dark. Yeah. And, you know, we'd go out and we'd play and we'd do all sorts of things. We'd explore the woods. We'd build go-karts.

I think this is something that's kind of changing in America. There's so much focus on grades and homework and structure around kids' lives. When I was growing up, my neighbors and moms would feed them breakfast, and they'd be like, well, be back by dark. Yeah. And, you know, we'd go out and we'd play and we'd do all sorts of things. We'd explore the woods. We'd build go-karts.

I think this is something that's kind of changing in America. There's so much focus on grades and homework and structure around kids' lives. When I was growing up, my neighbors and moms would feed them breakfast, and they'd be like, well, be back by dark. Yeah. And, you know, we'd go out and we'd play and we'd do all sorts of things. We'd explore the woods. We'd build go-karts.

We'd salvage old pieces of electronics and build what we thought were our spacecraft control panels for the fake spaceships we were building as play. And we'd have an enormous amount of freedom. And, you know, from basically being a little kid through... through the time I went off to college, it had an enormous amount of free time. Some people just used that and wasted it and watched TV.

We'd salvage old pieces of electronics and build what we thought were our spacecraft control panels for the fake spaceships we were building as play. And we'd have an enormous amount of freedom. And, you know, from basically being a little kid through... through the time I went off to college, it had an enormous amount of free time. Some people just used that and wasted it and watched TV.

We'd salvage old pieces of electronics and build what we thought were our spacecraft control panels for the fake spaceships we were building as play. And we'd have an enormous amount of freedom. And, you know, from basically being a little kid through... through the time I went off to college, it had an enormous amount of free time. Some people just used that and wasted it and watched TV.

Some people socialized. And some people really got into serious projects. So many people at all times were doing cool things. I was programming. I was learning to build things. Before I was releasing games to the world, I'd be like... Having neighborhood folks over to play the things I was working on and check them out. Sometimes they're impressed, and sometimes they weren't.

Some people socialized. And some people really got into serious projects. So many people at all times were doing cool things. I was programming. I was learning to build things. Before I was releasing games to the world, I'd be like... Having neighborhood folks over to play the things I was working on and check them out. Sometimes they're impressed, and sometimes they weren't.