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 Kyla Scanlon is a whip-smart 25 year old content creator who, with unusual haste, has built a large following posting short form videos about investing and finance. Her content is funny, ironic, learned, saturated with leading-edge memery and it's ''fast'': delivered at a gallop, with frenetic jump cuts that speak to the multi-channel, hyperlinked , always-on dot-dash attention spans that we are told are the thing for the next generation. Her delivery is so quick and she pivots so fast it’s hard to keep up, let alone mull over or subject to sober reflection that you wonder whether you're having your pocket picked or just being  bamboozled into admiring acquiescence at the energy and brio of the delivery.
-So reading her blog, — still infused with wit and eclectic references — no doubt scanlan was an excellent student — but where the reader gets to set the pace or consumption. It doesn't hold up so well.
+So reading her blog — still infused with the same knowing wit and eclectic references — no doubt Scanlon was an excellent student — is an interesting contrast. It is in the nature of written communication that the author cedes control of the page and depth of engagement to the reader, and the reader has to do the work. The tiktok short is a symbolic of the received criticisms of the the young generation.
+Scanlon is unrepresentative of her generation in another way too. That same lazy categorisation of millennials as dilettante attention-depleted digital natives who conduct their self-absorbed lives through social media isn't even generally true of the cohort who live in north London or the Menlo park, let alone the rest of the world's twenty -two year olds, of whom the stereotype is starkly atypical. Ambitious kids work like tyros, wherever they are. And are the progeny of the professionally qualified upper middle classes of London, new York and California necessarily as driven and (figuratively) hungry as poor kind lin Nairobi, Damascus or Kyiv? The JC has no data, but he doubts it. Who is more likely to complain about burnout after a nine to five?
 Being of Generation Zer — just — it is not surprising scanlon sides with her cohort , particularly seeing as her own career today is more or less the millennial experience. Scanlon earns a good crust making fun videos and doing podcasts. She is no better placed to speak for her generation then the boomers — less, in fact, because boomers and generation Xers are their parents.