Your Kid Just Got Creative Powers You Still Don't Have Access To
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I'm building an AI Sandbox for teenagers. Parents keep asking: "Can I get access?" Not yet. Maybe later. I'm still deciding. Right now, it's only for teens. And there's a reason I'm keeping it that way.
It's not gatekeeping. It's observation.
Kids think differently when they see these tools. They play. They experiment. They don't ask permission—they just create.
Adults? We bring our critic along for the ride. Me, for example. This week, I was testing Veo 3—one of the new tools I'm adding to the Sandbox.
I made this video about Design Thinking.
Something that would've taken an agency months and $20k to produce. I made it in an hour. And I almost didn't share it.
"Is it good enough? Should I polish it more? What will people think?" Then I realized: that hesitation is exactly why the Sandbox is for teens first.
But something else hit me while I was making it. Something bigger than the video itself.
If I, an adult with all my creative baggage, can make this in an hour...
What happens when teenagers, who don't have that baggage, get access to these tools?
What does it mean for learning when a kid can create a cartoon to explain Design Thinking instead of making another boring slide deck? Or build an actual app instead of writing a paper about app design? What if learning Spanish becomes irresistible because you're composing songs in Spanish, not just memorizing conjugations?
These aren't hypotheticals. This is what's available right now.
And it's not just about productivity—though yes, AI-native kids might be 10x more productive, like I wrote about here. It's about something deeper.
These tools expand imagination in ways that make learning actually irresistible. Your kid doesn't need to wait for permission to test an idea.
They don't need years of training to bring a concept to life. They have autonomy to try anything. They create magic in an instant. This is something we could never dream of at their age.
We're living in an era where your teenager can expand their universe in ways that are genuinely hard for us to comprehend.