The Importance of Having a Diploma

"I'm heavily invested in the academic life in a certain way," he says. "But I don't think that class time is never wasted or that everything functions perfectly, or that a lot of education just isn't a bunch of signaling" He's had conversations with high school kids who are probably even going to schools that are much less academically rigorous than they were at his age. 'It's important to have that diploma, even if you have to do a lot of dumb crap to get it'