The Drs S&O Podcast: The Power of Stories
Sep 24, 2026 · 43 min · 10 segments
Content type - Interview Primary goal - Educational Summary In this episode, Dominic Jolson shares his unconventional career journey from architecture to cultural innovation, emphasizing the…
Helmut SchusterHostI, I mean, this-- it's a big subject because where my mind went to, and I don't know why, but I was listening to some stuff from this economist in the UK, Gary Stevenson.
But he's a sort of alternative economist, working class, very much talking about what he sees as a disenfranchised generation that are coming to the workplace, having been promised jobs and, you know, a great lifestyle.
All they had to do, keep their nose clean, go to university, get a degree, and the rest of their lives would be milk and honey and jam and, and it just hasn't materialized, at least in the UK.
It seems that his, his theory, his, his proposition, his hy- hypothesis is that we have, we have built a disillusioned group of people coming into the workplace who just don't have jobs.
Now, the reason I, I thought about that was that I'm listening to you and I'm going, this is extraordinary, right? He, he could be a lawyer.
So, so isn't there a, a strange disconnect between this sort of cup half empty, the world is doom and gloom, AI is going to take all the jobs, there's gonna be nothing for humans left to do.
And then we have this lovely example, which I think is such a important punctuation that Dominik is saying there's this whole artistic component here, and I explored it and I didn't fear-- There's a lot of cliches out there, and I hate this no fear of failure cliché 'cause whenever I hear the cliches, I kind of go, well, though it's easy to say, it's much more difficult to live it.
But there is truth in it that if you are willing to make these adventurous leaps, my analogy is open doors and then just keep seeing where these doors lead you to.
But if you somehow expect someone to open doors for you or you expect that you're just gonna stand on an escalator that's gonna move you gradually through life, it just doesn't work.
I wonder, Dominik, if you have-- I mean, let's just say that you're in front of a bunch of high school students in some school somewhere who are saying, "Dominik, we're worried that there's gonna be no jobs 'cause artificial intelligence is gonna take them all, and you know, we're gonna study to be lawyers, but we're worried that there will be no lawyer jobs because artificial intelligence will, will, will do all the legal work that used to be done by junior lawyers." What, what would you say to them?
It's the-- I, I'm sure like there are many jobs that are not needed anymore and of course, like for consultants, many jobs are now also, yeah, are not there anymore.
The, the junior consultants, they got many tasks taken over by I- AI or also like lawyers.
But I think artists, it's a-- like musicians, like painters, that's like something where people can express themselves.
I, I mean, this-- it's a big subject because where my mind went to, and I don't know why, but I was listening to some stuff from this economist in the UK, Gary Stevenson.
But he's a sort of alternative economist, working class, very much talking about what he sees as a disenfranchised generation that are coming to the workplace, having been promised jobs and, you know, a great lifestyle.
All they had to do, keep their nose clean, go to university, get a degree, and the rest of their lives would be milk and honey and jam and, and it just hasn't materialized, at least in the UK.
It seems that his, his theory, his, his proposition, his hy- hypothesis is that we have, we have built a disillusioned group of people coming into the workplace who just don't have jobs.
Now, the reason I, I thought about that was that I'm listening to you and I'm going, this is extraordinary, right? He, he could be a lawyer.
So, so isn't there a, a strange disconnect between this sort of cup half empty, the world is doom and gloom, AI is going to take all the jobs, there's gonna be nothing for humans left to do.
And then we have this lovely example, which I think is such a important punctuation that Dominik is saying there's this whole artistic component here, and I explored it and I didn't fear-- There's a lot of cliches out there, and I hate this no fear of failure cliché 'cause whenever I hear the cliches, I kind of go, well, though it's easy to say, it's much more difficult to live it.
But there is truth in it that if you are willing to make these adventurous leaps, my analogy is open doors and then just keep seeing where these doors lead you to.
But if you somehow expect someone to open doors for you or you expect that you're just gonna stand on an escalator that's gonna move you gradually through life, it just doesn't work.
I wonder, Dominik, if you have-- I mean, let's just say that you're in front of a bunch of high school students in some school somewhere who are saying, "Dominik, we're worried that there's gonna be no jobs 'cause artificial intelligence is gonna take them all, and you know, we're gonna study to be lawyers, but we're worried that there will be no lawyer jobs because artificial intelligence will, will, will do all the legal work that used to be done by junior lawyers." What, what would you say to them?
It's the-- I, I'm sure like there are many jobs that are not needed anymore and of course, like for consultants, many jobs are now also, yeah, are not there anymore.
The, the junior consultants, they got many tasks taken over by I- AI or also like lawyers.
But I think artists, it's a-- like musicians, like painters, that's like something where people can express themselves.
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