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Published · transcript-backedBrendan Foody: uncertainty
7 Jan 2026 Conversations with Tyler Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
“I’m so in the company, I don’t know. I obviously was in college for a couple of years before I dropped out, and so I had some people around me.”
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- Brendan Foody
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- uncertainty
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- 7 Jan 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…How much do you feel you’re in touch with the general culture of intelligent 22-year-old men in the United States? Or are you just so in the company you have no idea what’s going on? I’m so in the company, I don’t know. I obviously was in college for a couple of years before I dropped out, and so I had some people around me. So much of our company is 22 plus or minus a couple of years, so I guess I have that heuristic. I certainly don’t think that I have spent as much time with people my age as if I had stayed in school, as another comparison. This is not a question about you, because we don’t ask personal questions, but a good tech friend of mine — you’ve probably heard of him — he says men in that age bracket, 22, 23, that there truly is a dating crisis, that something has gone wrong. Not about you, but just America in general, the very smart, possibly nerdy person in that age group. Is there a dating crisis?…
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