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323: Akash Chougule—Reguflation and the Right to Try

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

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The Importance of Individual Empowerment

The principle of individual empowerment, freedom and free markets is something that isn't attached to any one party or politician. And so the principle really spans across the set of issues that we work on. I think that's why you're seeing more and more bipartisan appeal.

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I should respect everything they've done and their position. But at the end of the day, they're just people. So it's okay to have a conversation with them. And I worry that today with so much social media, so many people focused on the screen, not interacting, that they're losing that ability. And it could hurt people from having really great relationships or asking good questions from people who've accomplished a lot. What was your biggest challenge in journalism? What do you feel like you overcame personally? Yeah. I mean, there was just so much I had to learn. When I finished grad school and I can talk and I can talk about grad school if you like later, but the first job I had after grad school was with Dow Jones. And the first six months for training, they put you on a night editing desk. And you edit copy that comes in. And then when you're sure it's clean and factually correct, it goes out on the news wires and gets disseminated around the world. And I literally had to get a map of Asia and color code the countries. And I wrote the capitals and big bold letters with a sharpie and stuck it up with tape in front of my computer. Because even though I thought I had a very good education, understanding global geography, global politics, global economics, it's just not something I had learned deeply at that point. And so I had to teach myself that was humbling. And it gave me a really good appreciation about how much there is for everyone to know and how connected the world is. Again, we talk about de globalization fragmentation today, whether we like it or not, we're irrevocably interlinked. And yeah, you need to understand where Jakarta is and what's going on in Indonesia versus Malaysia. Most people don't appreciate that Malaysia is an absolutely critical part of the supply chain for semiconductors. People think about Taiwan, of course, but Malaysia also has a really big role, this tiny little country, I think most Americans, especially in the early 20s, couldn't find on a map. And yet you need to understand what's going there because it affects something that's going to allow you to power up your computer, drive your car, turn on your home. So that was again, like going to France for this first time, getting that initial training and journalism, making me realize how much I didn't know and how humble I needed to be to figure it out. And I'm really grateful for that. How is what you do like journalism and how is it unlike journalism? Journalism is my secret weapon because I learned to think critically, I learned to filter out news from noise. I learned how to communicate my thoughts concisely and quickly and think on my feet. And I think that serves me extremely well. As a journalist, you're constantly trying to understand the world. Your job is to learn and educate. What a gift.

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