Alex Chen

Your 16-year-old wants to drop out and start a business. They have a real plan and real clients. Do you let them?

Compromise: let them do both for 6 months. If the business is real, it will survive part-time focus.

If AI could do your job 80% as well for 10% of the cost, would you retrain or fight for regulation?

Look, Retrain, but into something AI cannot do: leadership, empathy, creative strategy.

If you were US President and a major ally started a war without consulting you, do you publicly support or oppose them?

Oppose publicly, support privately. You need to signal independence but allies need to know you have their back.

Is it ever morally acceptable to lie to protect someone you love from a truth that would destroy them?

No. You do not get to decide what someone else can handle. That is not love, that is control.