He Called Me a Leech on LinkedIn… So I Invited Him Onto My Podcast

A stranger sent me a brutal message on LinkedIn, questioned the ethics of my tutoring business and then publicly called me a “leech”.He knew very little about me.So rather than spending days arguing with him online, I invited him onto the podcast.In this episode, I sit down with Simon Nicholson to talk about what made him send that message, why he believes private tuition shouldn’t need to exist, and whether building a business from the problems within education can ever be morally justified.We talk about:What happens when online criticism becomes personalThe responsibility we have for how we behave on social mediaWhether tutors are benefiting from a broken education systemWhy so many experienced teachers are leaving the classroomWhether those teachers should use their skills to build tutoring businessesSimon’s concerns about AI and the EdTech industryEducation reform and whether the current system needs completely rethinkingWhy human connection may become even more important as AI growsWe definitely don’t agree on everything.But what started as a pretty unpleasant interaction online became a much more human conversation.If being visible in your tutoring business worries you because you’re scared of criticism, judgement or what somebody might say about you, this episode is particularly worth hearing.Here is the LinkedIn Post https://lnkd.in/p/evzbZmxH Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.