Justin Steele on Raising Kids Who Build, Not Kids Who Outsource to AI
What separates a kid who builds with AI from a kid who outsources their thinking to it? For Justin Steele, a father of four daughters, it starts with one house rule: you write the first draft.
Justin spent a decade at Google.org, leading philanthropy across the Americas and directing nearly $700 million in grants. He left at the end of 2024, taught himself to build with AI, and has since logged roughly 5,000 hours doing it. That work became Kindora, a public benefit corporation that helps 1,300 nonprofits find funders, and Outdoorithm, the camping platform he runs with his wife, Sally.
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