Brendan O'Connor
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14,242 appearances
153 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Brendan O'Connor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And like reading about your adventures in startups, there's no doubt that you'd want to be crazy to start up a tech company.
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Would you make a distinction between a battle?
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And I think I do think we're seeing it again.
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Now, all this is happening again.
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The right kind of crazy and the wrong kind of crazy.
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What's the right kind of crazy and what's the wrong kind of crazy?
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Looking for answers to a problem that we don't have.
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So people will have a version of this story, of the story of the internet in their heads, right?
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But there are things here that people will not have realised.
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So you saw a story from around 2014 and you still saw the internet as a reasonably benign place then, right?
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Then you point out that that was roughly when the algorithms changed as well.
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Now, the algorithms are the big bad guys now.
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The algorithms originally were serving us, correct?
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it the case that, unfortunately, the things that are the most high octane for people and therefore that it serves the algorithms to serve are generally kind of more on the outrage, anger side?
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end of things rather than like fluffy bonies, yeah?
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Okay.
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You talk a lot, and again, it's a theme throughout about squandered potential of all this.
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You saw that.
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You went to work in Twitter.
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