{"id":1274,"date":"2026-04-15T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/15\/my-friends-8-year-old-son-asked-me-last-week-why-i-stare-at-screens-all-day\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:58:13","slug":"my-friends-8-year-old-son-asked-me-last-week-why-i-stare-at-screens-all-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/15\/my-friends-8-year-old-son-asked-me-last-week-why-i-stare-at-screens-all-day\/","title":{"rendered":"My friend&#8217;s 8-year-old son asked me last week why I stare at screens all day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend&#8217;s 8-year-old son asked me last week why I stare at screens all day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uncle, don&#8217;t you get bored talking to computers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I paused mid-email. This kid spends hours building Lego cities, racing bikes, creating stories with his toys.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;m optimizing algorithms and reviewing pitch decks.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded me of something we&#8217;ve forgotten in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>While everyone debates whether AI will replace human creativity, kids are still the most creative beings on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t worry about prompts or models or efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>They just create.<\/p>\n<p>My friend&#8217;s son built a spaceship from cardboard yesterday. No tutorials, no best practices, no frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>Just imagination and execution.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the real threat isn&#8217;t AI taking our jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s us forgetting how to think like we did before we had jobs to lose.<\/p>\n<p>When did we start believing creativity needs permission?<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\uddde\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf6\ud835\ude00\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddee \ud835\udddf\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddf8\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfa\ud835\ude00\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf6 | \ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddfb\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfd\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude02\ud835\uddff \u00b7 \ud835\udde9\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfb\ud835\ude01\ud835\ude02\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf2 \ud835\udde6\ud835\ude01\ud835\ude02\ud835\uddf1\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddfc \ud835\uddd9\ud835\uddfc\ud835\ude02\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf1\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddff \u00b7 \ud835\udddc\ud835\uddfb\ud835\ude03\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude00\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddff<br \/>\nWriting at the intersection of AI, capital, and the future of the human job market &#8211; sharing mylife lessons, reflections, and honest takes from the founder-investor&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend&#8217;s 8-year-old son asked me last week why I stare at screens all day. &#8220;Uncle, don&#8217;t you get bored&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}