A $62,000 529 balance for a 6-year-old will grow to $204,000 in 12 years at 10% — with zero additional contributions. Dave says stop contributing to that account and redirect the money toward the mortgage instead. Use the Ramsey online calculator to future-value each child's balance and decide whether it's 'enough.'
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Kirsten and her husband are on Baby Steps 5 and 6 simultaneously, with a take-home income of over $10,000 a month at age 33. Their three children's 529 accounts hold $62K, $32K, and $8K respectively. The question: when is enough, enough? George runs the calculation live: $62,000 growing at 10% for 12 years produces approximately $204,000 — likely enough for an in-state school after inflation. Dave says stop contributing to that account. For the other two, they work out a goal to future-value each balance to roughly the same $204K target adjusted for age and inflation. Dave also shares his own approach: he used UTMA accounts for his kids, put each in a different fund risk level matched to their age, and then handed them the accounts as wedding gifts after cash-flowing their college education. The SECURE Act 2.0 rollover provision gets a mention as a useful but limited escape valve for overfunded 529s.
A $62,000 529 balance left alone at 10% becomes $204,000 in 12 years — meaning the oldest of three children may already have enough saved for college.
A baseball-playing junior who learned about compound interest now wants to quit the sport to start working and investing. George says let him decide and own it. Jade says team sports build something a job can't replace — try doing both during off-season first before making the call permanent.
May is 33, carries $69K in combined household debt, and wants to spend 11–13 years training to become a forensic pathologist at $14K/year in tuition. The prerequisite is non-negotiable: zero debt before a single class. Then, with the spouse earning $4,500/month and able to run the household debt-free, cash-flowing medical school is genuinely possible.
Kavak launched the Jedi Academy, an internal program where every employee — from CEO to mechanics — completes a 6-week training and ships a production-ready AI agent. The message to staff was blunt: train and adapt, or this may not be the right place for you.
The worst AI outcome for young people isn't cheating on homework. It's that passive, mindless consumption strips away the motivation and agency their brains need to develop. The second worst outcome is banning AI from classrooms entirely. The winning path is giving students AI-powered agency.
Prompting AI effectively is a skill that should be taught in K-12. The best prompter in history? Socrates. His method of relentlessly asking precise questions to uncover truth is exactly what powerful AI interaction looks like — and schools should explicitly teach it.
When ChatGPT launched in November 2022, Fei-Fei Li's first move was to email her child's elementary school principal and offer to lecture teachers and students. No investor or tech company did that. Teachers are scared, forgotten, and lectured at — and if they're not helped, neither are the kids.
After the KSI show exposed how hard physical comedy really is, Andrew Santino sincerely proposed doing a semester at clown school in France. Bobby agreed. This is apparently a real plan.
K-12 schools ask students to sit still, raise their hand, use fine motor skills, and be pleasers — behaviors that describe girls more than boys. Boys are twice as likely to be suspended for the same behavior, and five times as likely if they're Black. The system needs male teachers, national service, and kindergarten starting at 6 for boys.
Sunk costs are gifts from your former self — and like all gifts, you're allowed to decline them. Godin reframes every stuck-due-to-sunk-cost situation as a single question: knowing what you know now, would you choose this again?
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