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My daughter recently turned thirteen. She’ll probably roll her eyes if she ever reads this, but watching her grow has made me realize just how different her future may be from the one I imagined at her age. In about five years she’ll graduate from high school, and I have no idea what the world she’ll be stepping into will look like. Maybe every generation has looked ahead and wondered what the future would bring. But this feels different. The pace of change is unlike anything

A few weeks ago, I was having lunch with a group of friends when, as seems to happen more and more these days, the conversation turned to AI. One friend shared something that stayed with me. She had been listening to a podcast about artificial intelligence. The guest was describing how dramatically AI could reshape jobs, education, and society. At some point, she said she simply stopped listening. Not because she thought the speaker was wrong. Not because she disagreed. Becau

A friend said something to me recently that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. We were talking about AI when she paused and said, “I feel like I’m already too late.” Too late to learn it. Too late to understand it. Too late to catch up. Since then, I’ve heard versions of that same sentence from several different people. And honestly, I understand it. The pace of change right now can feel overwhelming. Every day there seems to be a new tool, a new platform, a new pred

What If Our Kids Are Already Ahead of Us? A few weeks ago, I attended a high school panel on AI here at Green School in Bali. As both a parent and someone who has been fascinated by technology for years, I was curious. I wanted to hear directly from students. How are they using AI? What excites them? What concerns them? What do they wish schools were teaching? What I didn’t expect was how much the conversation would make me reflect on my own relationship with change. The stud