What Giant Robots Teach Us About Life: Toms Kreicbergs at TEDxRiga

Toms Kreicbergs is a writer whose fiction has been nominated for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards and the Latvian Literature Award.

Toms has won the Writers of the Future contest, and his stories have been translated to multiple languages. He writes under the pen name Tom Crosshill.

After studying physics at Reed College and working as an investment banker on Wall Street, Toms returned to Latvia, where he teaches business skills. In the past he has operated a nuclear reactor, worked inside a zinc mine, and co-founded a dance school, among other things.

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