Kuala Lampur, Feb. 2 -- "Anybody that writes a book or goes on TV with the notion that they have a story worth telling, that people might want to listen to, you're really already, by definition, an aberrant personality and a monster of self-regard." - Anthony Bourdain (from his last interview with Fast Company)

I was running a workshop for a mix of 15- to 17-year-olds the other day. We were discussing careers and what some of them wanted to be when they grew up.

The usual answers popped up; we had the doctors, the lawyers, the engineers, the pilots (of course) and - I guess I shouldn't have been surprised but somehow I was - one boy jokingly (or maybe not that jokingly) said he wanted to be a YouTuber.

I (also jokingly) asked him if he...