Saturday mornings

AI is eating the entry-level rungs. The institutions see it but can't move fast enough. So what happens in the gaps?

I keep noticing something about young people entering the world.

Not lazy. Not entitled. Just... unclear on where to point themselves.

The old paths - get a degree, get a job, figure it out - are eroding. And nobody's quite sure what replaces them.

A professor told me this week: "We have faculty meetings about this all the time. We just can't move fast enough." Some employers want to do something too - but they're often stuck doing business as usual.

Zoe Scaman nailed this in her 'Pipeline Problem' essay the other week: the industry celebrates senior talent plus AI as a superpower - while quietly dismantling the conditions that created those seniors. The judgment they have was built through years of doing things badly and being told why.

That loop is being cut.

I've been thinking about what a small response might look like.

A room on Saturday mornings. A couple of different cities. 18-24 year olds working through playable case studies - real decisions, real stakes, no right answers. Mentors who've been there. A couple of hours. Regular.

Not a program. Not a course. Just somewhere they're taken seriously and given something real to work on.

I can't do this alone.

If you're thinking about this space too - I'd like to talk. And if you know someone who's into this - tag them right here.