Tom Wainwright
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83 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4d ago
Tom Wainwright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you only need to go back a decade or so, to a time when Twitter was primarily a text-based platform, to see that written communication does not always lead to calm or nuanced debate.
Yet the drop-off in reading is disconcerting.
As fewer people summon the patients to sit down with a long text, fewer will absorb the ideas that are conveyed
writing.
Great orators incite the passions, but great writers can stir the mind.
Charlie Kirk observed that when people stop talking, really bad stuff starts, and he was all too right.
But how much worse will it become as they stop reading?
Leaving university for the tundra of the job market has always been tough.
But these days, artificial intelligence is making the transition even harder.
Gen Z graduates are sending off hundreds of applications with the help of AI just to be rejected by AI-powered human resources departments.
Some economists have warned that AI could cause large-scale unemployment.
So what's Gen Z to do?
Thankfully, lots of people have written new books offering advice, and I read three of them so you don't have to.
The age-old advice goes that you should pursue your passions and follow your dreams.
That's what's recommended by Bill Gurley, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has written a careers book called Running Down a Dream, and also by Jodie Cantor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at The New York Times who has published a book called How to Start.
While that sounds ideal, I couldn't help but feel that both authors show why successful people like them can sometimes make bad careers advisors.
Jodie Cantor's success as a journalist who uncovered the Harvey Weinstein scandal is not typical.
She won a Pulitzer Prize, her book was made into a Hollywood film, and so on.
Bill Gurley's book cites podcasters who did what they loved and then made money from it.
But despite the fact that you're listening to me on a podcast right now, it's hard to think of a better example than podcasting to illustrate how doing what you love doesn't always lead to a viable job.
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