I had just started teaching at a school in the Bekaa valley when war broke out in September 2024. Within days, an Israeli bomb tore through my family home. One minute we were eating lunch, the next the walls were collapsing around us and on to my car outside. I had spent three years saving for that Honda Civic, so when I saw it destroyed, I broke down in tears.
One founder who has built a billion-dollar company told me he doesn't see value in a liberal arts education and has 'yet to meet people that consistently rave about that as being super useful.'