Worklife with Adam Grant

Unsubscribed as soon as I heard the host call Mark a Zuckerberg “extraordinary” human. Zuckerberg is extraordinary; extraordinarily awful. I don’t need to spend any more time listening to a tech bro bootlicker. Gross.

The shift from a scientist helping draw work-life insights from the experiences of a variety of people, to someone representing their perspective on work from the vantage point of the upper echelons of corporate America as “relatable,” is grating. You do you girl, but this 9-5 girlie will be leaving the chat.

I was excited to support a female host even though I always came for Adam! I hope Molly can get a little host training to improve. For example, I had to turn off the latest episode because Molly uses the word “like” so much - which is so fixable! Good luck, it certainly is hard to follow in Adam’s footsteps

I listened to 2 episodes after the host change and not a fan. Molly had a good voice and personality that initially showed up well, but the interview and the topics lack depth and true insights. This podcast fills to pop psych / pop management space. The AI episode utterly shows how completely out of touch Molly is with the “Workers”, supposedly audience of this podcast, by having the guest talk about how his 8-year-old son vibe code and how every 6-days there’s a renewed threat that jobs will be replaced. In very little ways it has a pragmatic and optimistic vision of how AI becomes a workers tool in the workplace. It adds nothing to the current fear / hype to the discussion. I like that she tried to do something she is not good at, I subscribe to that philosophy too. But she needs to hear she is not good at it, at least, yet.

I don’t mind the new direction, however there are too many ads for me to want to continue to listen the growing pains.