Next time you’re in a meeting, pay attention to who yaps vs. listens.
This is what I’ve observed at most companies:
Junior employee: high listen, low yap
Mid-level employee: high yap, low listen
Senior employee: high listen, low yap
My law students are not pro-AI. They're scared. Meanwhile the people most excited about AI tend to be over 40. That's an unusual inversion from how tech adoption usually goes.
Deepfakes are coming to the courtroom. Courts are not ready. Lawyers are not ready. The evidentiary rules weren't written for this. Pay attention to this one.
Something I realized when I became a parent is there's a window of time when your parents are healthy, your kids are little, and everyone gets to experience multiple generations of family spending time together. Cherish this time and don’t take a single moment of it for granted.