"There is no safe career path today, let alone one that will remain safe for twenty years, which means that there is no set of schools and degrees that can guarantee a safe career into the 2040s and 2050s." "Pushing them to get really good at math seems silly, when AI is currently tornadoing through all of the field's hardest open problems. Should you push them to become a lawyer?... Doctor?" "You're basically paying $650k to make sure your kid is admitted to a good high school, which should, but certainly isn't guaranteed to, help them get into a really good college, at which point they'll probably get a good job, at which point, they're set for life." "The challenge with that, though, is that who knows what a good job will be in fifteen years?" "Expose your kids to a lot of things early, and then help them go as deep as they're able to on the things that excite them the most. It doesn't matter what those things are; cultivating curiosity and depth is the point." @packyM and @Alex_Danco on HAA, college, and their own kids: