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<p>He is now a small-scale venture capitalist who looks at the world from a different perspective than most of us. </p>
<p>He is a guy who thinks through a lot of dissimilar topics and ties them together in his writing, methodically explaining his point of view using anecdotal but concrete examples from his experiences in a style that doesn’t require a dictionary to decipher. </p>
<p>Should we “care” what he has to say? No more and no less than anybody else who has a thoughtful opinion to share (including the “experts”). I suspect, based having read a few of his essays, that he doesn’t care a nit whether the reader agree with him or not, so long as he can provoke the reader to think more deeply about the topic at hand.</p>
<p>So we can read what he has to say, consider his arguments, and debate his conclusions, as many have done in this thread. </p>
<p>On the other hand, it might be easier to skip the reading and simply question his credentials, make fun of his name, dismiss him as a contrarian LISP programmer, or denigrate his mundane prose as indictment of the elite schools at which he clearly did not belong.</p>