The Rewards of Stepping Out of Line: A Commencement Address from Kara

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This May, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art invited Kara to deliver its commencement address. Today, we’d like to share her speech with you. Kara discusses the arc of her career and the lessons she’s picked up covering the most powerful in tech — plus gardening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.8	Hi everyone, from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network,
0:52.3	this is the Nuclear Physicist named Barbie.
0:55.4	I'm just kidding, this is on with Kara Swisher and I'm Kara Swisher.
0:59.1	Today, I'm going to make it short and sweet.
1:01.6	Since you're about to hear a lot from me via this commencement address,
1:04.8	I gave it the Cooper Union to its graduating students in May.
1:08.5	For those who don't know the school, it was founded in 1859 and gives degrees
1:12.4	in art, architecture, and engineering, which is presumably why they asked me
1:17.4	really old lady of tech.
1:20.2	This is my first college commencement speech.
1:22.5	I did a high school graduation once, but college is the big time and also a place
1:27.4	where you can stumble easily as a speaker and give her a wisdom for life and be instantly
1:32.7	forgettable.
1:34.2	I don't recall who spoke at either my graduation from Georgetown University or Columbia
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