"I think she's preparing for some dystopian future where all we can do is get corporate jobs and, you know, there's nothing else left in the world," he says of his mother. "It's very, it's going to take decades for that culture to recover from just sort of the tradition of jadedness and non-entrepreneurship." He went to an American high school in Bulgaria whose premise was that they would prepare your equally well for Bulgarian and American university curricula. 'We had two classes in Bulgarian, including just literature and history'
In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Maria Popova discusses growing up in Bulgaria, the evolution of Brainpicker and inventing the curator’s code.