Day: November 18, 2025

• Kate Winslet, 50, says growing older has helped her feel more comfortable with her body.
• “We’re so conditioned as women in our 40s to think, OK, well, I’m creeping closer to the end,” she said.
• But the confidence that comes with getting older only adds to a woman’s charm, she said.

Kate Winslet, 50, says aging has taught her to feel more confident in her own skin.

During an appearance on Monday’s episode of the “How to Fail with Elizabeth Day” podcast, Winslet spoke about how growing older has reshaped her relationship with her body.

“I’m great with it. I think I look flipping amazing,” Winslet told podcast host Elizabeth Day.

Winslet said that while many people still view aging as something to fear or fix, she has learned to see it in a different light.

“We’re so conditioned, women in our 40s, to think, OK, well, I’m creeping closer to the end. You know, you think you go into menopause and you’re going to stop having sex, and your boobs are going to sag, and your skin’s going to go crepey, and all these things,” Winslet said. “But, first of all, so what? And secondly, it’s just conditioning.”

The “Titanic” star added that the confidence earned with age only makes a woman more captivating.

“You know, I think women, as they get older, become juicier and sexier, and more embedded in their truth and who they are, and more powerful, and more able to walk through the world and care less. And that is an empowering thing,” Winslet said.

The actor said she often makes a point of complimenting her friends by telling them they look “amazing.”

“It’s very important, and it doesn’t mean you look great slash you’ve lost weight,” she said.

When it comes to exercise, Winslet says she focuses on her health rather than aesthetics.

“Exercise for me is not actually about looking a certain way. It’s about not getting injured. So I don’t hurt myself in my life because I always want to swim in the cold water, and I always want to be able to hike for five hours,” Winslet said.

Even little things, like giving her son a piggyback ride and being able to carry her own luggage, are part of what motivates her to stay active, she added.

Not only that, she also relies on her fitness to keep up with the physical demands of her work.

“So, you have to have resilience and stamina, and a lot of that does come with just making sure that you’re fit and well,” Winslet said.

At the height of her “Titanic” fame, Winslet faced intense media scrutiny over her appearance.

Speaking on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast in 2021, the actor said she was unprepared for the level of attention that followed the film’s success.

“I was subject to a lot of personal physical scrutiny, I was criticized a lot and the British press were quite unkind to me. I felt bullied if I’m honest,” Winslet told host Marc Maron.

In 2022, Winslet told The Sunday Times that her agent would often get calls asking about her weight.

• Andrew Ng says the AI era is revealing a hierarchy in engineering talent.
• The former Google Brain scientist is blunt about the type of engineers he refuses to hire.
• Computer science graduates who don’t know AI are “in trouble,” Ng said.

Andrew Ng isn’t shy about the kind of engineer he refuses to hire, and he says the AI era is exposing exactly who’s falling behind.

The Stanford professor and former Google Brain scientist broke down what he sees as a hierarchy of engineering talent on an episode of the “20VC” podcast published Monday.

The top performers are seasoned engineers who have adopted AI early and know how to leverage it effectively.

“The most productive engineers I know, they’re not fresh college grads,” said Ng, who now leads several AI-focused ventures, including AI Fund. “They are people of 10, 20 years of experience or whatever, and really on top of AI,” he added.

These engineers “move faster than anything the world has seen even one or two years ago,” Ng said.

Just below them are fresh college graduates who learned AI tools through “the social network community,” and Ng said he has hired a few of them.

“We can’t find enough of them,” Ng said, referring to these college graduates who really know AI. “So many businesses love to hire those fresh college grads.”

Beneath that group are experienced developers who had a “comfortable job” and are still “coding like it’s 2022,” before AI rewired how software is built.

“I just don’t hire people like that anymore,” Ng said. “Those people may get into trouble at some point.”

At the bottom of the hierarchy are new computer science graduates who never learned AI at all, “which is the tier that is in trouble.”

University curricula haven’t kept pace with industry needs, and schools should be training computer science majors on the core AI building blocks that software engineers are expected to know, Ng said.

“Imagine graduating a CS undergrad that has never heard of cloud computing,” Ng said. “That’s a cohort of students entering the job market that’s really struggling.”

AI and the workforce

Ng’s remarks come amid a growing debate in Silicon Valley over who will thrive — and who will struggle — as AI reshapes the workforce.

Some industry leaders say younger workers may actually be better positioned for the transition than their older counterparts. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he’s far more concerned about how workers later in their careers will cope with the rapid adoption of AI.

“I’m more worried about what it means not for the 22-year-old, but for the 62-year-old that doesn’t want to go retrain or rescale or whatever the politicians call it that no one actually wants,” Altman said in August on Cleo Abram’s “Huge Conversations” YouTube show.

New graduates are poised to adapt to the changes AI brings. “If I were 22 right now and graduating college, I would feel like the luckiest kid in all of history,” Altman said.

Some tech leaders are also making it mandatory for employees to adopt AI tools.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in August that he fired employees who didn’t use AI tools at work and couldn’t justify why.

Google executives have delivered similar expectations. Employees told Business Insider in an August report that CEO Sundar Pichai urged staff in an all-hands meeting to use more AI across their workflows, including engineers adopting AI-assisted coding to stay competitive.