1: Jon Ronson

Jon is a multi-award winning author, screenwriter, and documentarian, whose work includes The Psychopath Test, Them, The Men Who Stare at Goats and So You've Been Publicly Shamed AND the first ever guest on the BLANK podcast! We caught up with Jon while he was in the UK to do some live shows about his brilliant Audible series 'The Butterfly Effect'. We talked about the destructive nature of a social media pile on and Jon's own recent brush with it. Jon tells us about his own methods for making sure he avoids going BLANK on projects and opens up about empathy being his first way into a story. Let us know what you think of the pod: hello@theblankpocast.com or @blankpod on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theblankpodcast.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices