Years ago, I ran a coding workshop with high school students on the South Side of Chicago.

Two young women came up with an idea: a navigation app that didn't just show you the fastest route, it showed you the safest one. They already knew which streets to avoid at certain times. They'd been doing this by instinct their whole lives - texting each other, sharing what they knew. They wanted to take that lived knowledge and make it available to everyone in their neighborhood.

I remember the energy in that room. They weren't solving a hypothetical problem. They were solving their problem. Back then, I couldn't teach them enough to actually build it. The technical barrier was too high. Today? They could ship that app in a week.

That's what I keep thinking about. Not what AI will take away. What it makes possible for people who never had access before. But here's the thing: if we're not in the room where this is being built, our problems won't be in the product.

So if this world makes sense to you - if you've started to see what's possible - don't just build for yourself. Invite someone in. The people in your life who are skeptical, who haven't had time to look, who've been told this isn't for them.

They belong here too.