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This will be the second time Andrew Warner has interviewed me. I hope you're ready for it, D.C.

I'm excited. And I will be wearing one of my Skins jerseys.

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Epic. Yeah, that's about right. My hair is usually longer and more unkempt, though.

We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they’re worth doing in the first place. What we have now are the greatest technocrats the world has ever seen, people who have been trained to be incredibly good at one specific thing, but who have no interest in anything beyond their area of exper­tise. What we don’t have are leaders.

What we don’t have, in other words, are thinkers. People who can think for themselves. People who can formulate a new direction: for the country, for a corporation or a college, for the Army—a new way of doing things, a new way of looking at things. People, in other words, with vision.

Discovered thanks to @harjeet.

Based on possibly the greatest rage comic ever. Created by graulund.

Wow. Great article. And nearly 6 years after Ryan Singel wrote the first article on Y Combinator (and reddit).

German is the funniest language I have ever learned. (Disclaimer: It is the only language other than english I have ever learned.) Further disclaimer, I don't even speak german very well, no doubt I'll make plenty of mistakes in this post.

Imagine a party game where you draw simple words out of a hat, and have to use only those words to communicate some complex idea to your teammates. Now you know how german works.

In this case, Space Construction Vehicle apparently translates to "Weltraumbaufahrzeug". Ok. But let's break that down, literally. (Nota Bene: I am not literally breaking it down, I am breaking it down literally.). Welt means "world", raum means "room" or "space". So space is "world-room". Well, duh. It's the room where the world is. I'm surprised you didn't just assume that. "Bau" is building or structure. Fahr is "conveyance" or "transport" or "moving thing" or something; it often appears to me to stand in for the abstract concept of movement through space. I've never been totally clear on what a "zeug" is, literally. My german dictionary says it means "stuff" or "gear".

So, let's put that together. In german, an SCV is, literally, a "world-room-building-go-thing".

Well put, emTel. It's funny because it's true. Oh, German...

"You could think of it as an early stage investor, a Y combinator for awesomeness,” Hwang says.

Thanks for having me on the panel, @BusinessInsider!