Aaron Swartz Essay

Following all his childhood experiences, Aaron moved onto college and the workplace where he continued to show his its Swartz’s way or the highway attitude. Swartz’s childhood ways and full of himself qualities were carried out through his teen years and early 20’s. These ways affected his work life and led to many difficulties to why he couldn’t fulfill what he wanted to do in life. In the early years around the age of fifteen, “Swartz’s excitement about books...made him a born intellectual.” (Gould). An intellectual person is one with a possession of a high degree of intellect such as Karl Marx and Leonardo Da Vinci. Swartz’s was categorized with some of the world’s most intellectual persons from birth. Therefore he behaved as an intellectual, …show more content…
(Knappenberger). Presenting that Swartz felt that college was unnecessary for him because he knew what he was capable of with his intellect. Swartz’s childhood set him high above others at his age. The events that took place in his life was unusual for someone in his age bracket. At nineteen Aaron developed Reddit one of the world’s most widely used social-networking news sites (MacFarquhar). In the Internet’s Own Boy it's delivered that Swartz created a website named “TheInfo.org” clarifying that is was proto-Wikipedia before Wikipedia existed (Knappenberger). These activities done in his life at this time was not done by the average teenager, but these actions were only carried out by Swartz’s cause they had been developed in his childhood, from a young age he was doing things above his age level and they continue throughout his life. Most of these actions took place also because of Aaron’s goal he yearned to achieve. Around the age of fourteen, Swartz actually was the mentor of Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, who was later convinced my by Swartz to give up working on internet law and copyright and work on political corruption