Navigating AI Transitions with Whit
Our Work. Our Kids. Ourselves.
Helping Working Parents Shape AI’s Influence
Welcome to Navigating AI Transitions with Whit! AI is moving fast, but we still decide how it shapes our work, our kids, and ourselves. This community will help working parents navigate three simultaneous challenges:
Work: Using AI effectively in our jobs
Kids: Guiding how they learn and play with AI
Self: Protecting and enhancing the parts of us that make us human
I am actively on this journey spending several hours per week exploring these topics at work and at home, playing with emerging AI tools, and reading viewpoints of leading thinkers. At work, I am an SVP of Organizational Innovation and Strategy Execution where a key part of my job is helping both my company as a whole and my colleagues at the individual level navigate the AI transition. At home, I have kids starting high school and middle school who will be deeply impacted by AI in the coming years. On a personal level, I am engaging in multiple activities to enhance the elements of my humanity that I value most even as I work more deeply with AI.
My hope is that by sharing my experiences including what I am finding valuable, how I’m thinking about different topics, and what areas are sparking my curiosity, I can help all of you make more informed and intentional choices about AI.
1. Humans can collaborate with AI in ways that enhance creativity, mastery, and grit or erode them. It’s our choice.
How do we avoid losing generations to the AI transition the way we did with social media? With social media, for far too long, we failed to understand the scale of impacts on our attention and mental well-being. The AI transition will be faster and more pervasive impacting nearly all elements of our lives. While the tech companies get all the headlines, working parents will have outsized influence in shaping how the transitions play out. Will we repeat many of the mistakes of the social media era as passive recipients of the change, or will we maintain our agency?
Shaping the future requires both knowledge and confidence. If you don’t know where to start, only dabble at the surface, or aren’t sure what questions to ask, the river of change will carry you and your kids with it. However, even if the currents are strong, knowledge allows you to paddle, to make active choices that have real impact.
2. A community of working parents who want to choose.
This community is for those who want to be informed and make active choices. I am going to share my journey, not to tell you what to do, but to hopefully accelerate how you develop your own views about what matters to you in the ongoing AI transitions and what to do about it.
3. What you can expect
I plan to send 1-3 posts per week that should take ~5-15 minutes to read. I’ll share not just what I’m exploring but also why and how so you can craft your own journey. Some posts will include links to other resources I find valuable. The posts are free, but I ask that you subscribe to help me better engage the community. I also hope you share this resource with others you think will find it valuable. As our community builds, I will attempt to engage with comments and invite requests for topics of interest to you.
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Game on