Every Technology podcast predicts the future. For the last episode of 2025, Thinking On Paper is going backwards. And it's not even our own work, like Open AI scraping the internet for IP, we're borrowing (stealing) the learnings of Tom Whitwell.
Tom is a reformed journalist, reformed consultant and now designs electronic musical instruments. He wrote this blog on the 52 things he learned in 2025: https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2025-edeca7e3fdd8
We choose our favourite lessons across AI, energy, labor, culture, psychology, and... checks notes... shrimps.
Some are encouraging. (air pollution deaths falling).
Some are weird. (the economics of human blood products).
Most sit somewhere in-between.
Please enjoy the show.
And remember: Stay curious. Be disruptive.
Keep Thinking on Paper.
Cheers, Mark & Jeremy
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TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Disruptors & Curious Minds
(01:15) Deaths From Air Pollution
(01:56) UK Tax Breaks Via Farms
(02:29) Meteorite Radio Stations
(04:03) Turn Mercury Into Gold
(06:10) Manipulative AI Apps For Nurses
(07:43) Bin Laden's Casio Watch
(08:31) Radioactive Shrimps
(08:53) Apple's Air Demo Cock-Up
(10:10) Does Jeremy Wear Crocs?
(11:13) What Is Raw Dogging
(12:00) Human Blood Products
(12:36) Relaxed Mowing
(13:20) Bugles At Funerals
(13:55) Robot Hands Need Fingernails
(14:40) First Names Affect Your Job
(15:27) Retrospect VHS
(16:04) Attractive Servers Earn More
(17:21) Hong Kong Phone Service
(17:33) McDonald's Loses First Place
(19:26) Shrimp Farming
(20:35) Peanut Allergies are Falling
(20:55) The Serial Killer Epidemic
(21:17) Namibian Politics
(21:50) Big Doors In LA
(22:40) Escape Your Mind With Writing
(23:43) HP Printer Ineptitude
(24:25) British Chaos
(25:20) Thank You Tom Whitwell