Emma Camp - Why Gen Z Is Afraid of Rejection: Dating, Therapy Culture & Housing (Ep. 331)

My guest today is Emma Camp. The journalist and senior newsletter editor at the Wall Street Journal's Free Expression section, where she writes daily commentary and produces short form video on American culture, politics, economics. and other issues. Emma, welcome to Infinite Loops. Um when I saw your video on Rent control not being the greatest thing in the world.

I I was fascinated for a couple of reasons. Uh like as an old uh that is sort of like saying the sky is blue or uh a variety of those things. But essentially you Blew up with that video. But your primarily would you say or Yeah, yeah. Which do you enjoy more? I enjoy writing more. Um, I've

Oh, like writing is the only thing I've ever been really good at. It's the only thing I've ever really wanted to do. Like I have the very stereotypical writer background, which is like I was scribbling stories and notebooks when I was eight years old, but that but that's just one hundred percent true. I went to a Uh, public fine arts magnet school in Alabama for creative writing, like it was like LaGuardia, but in Alabama, like it's the it's it's I was an English major, like just what I've done. Um

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