January 12, 2013
Reddit CoFounder and Demand Progress Founder, Aaron Swartz has committed suicide, he was 26. He was well known for his brilliance, drive, and technical ability. He will be missed by all. Read some of his writings here on his site while it still is up: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/writings
I enjoyed this piece of his "Toward a Larger Left", Aaron Swartz says regarding a college class he was in,"It quickly became clear that I was the only person even remotely on the left. And it wasn’t simply that the others disagreed with me; they couldn’t even understand me. I remember us discussing a scene in Invisible Man where a factory worker brags he’s so indispensable that when he was out sick the boss drove to his house and begged him to come back, agreeing to put him in charge. When I suggested Ellison might be implying that labor, not management, ought to run workplaces, the other students (and the teacher) didn’t just disagree—they found the idea incomprehensible. How could you run a factory without managers?