Kelly Corrigan

I didn't want to set her up to be the villain.

I did need her to be super direct about exactly what areas of family life her product was considering getting involved in.

And that yielded a really interesting takeaway that you'll hear in the talk.

about a conversation she had with a board member who was starting to see these fascinating and potentially profitable product extensions that made Avni start to wonder what the consequences of that kind of product development might be.

And that brought up this really interesting question, which is, is there something lost

when you are not in the weeds with your kids and their lives?

Is there a way in which reducing all this noise around logistics threatens some of those tiny time-sensitive interactions that you can occasionally have with your kid when you're driving them to baseball?

If you remove every possible hiccup from family life using AI, does that somehow weirdly reduce the number and variety of situations you might find yourself in that are quote-unquote teachable moments?

So I was desperate to get Avni to write a TED Talk.

Now, when she sat down to do it, she had about 4,000 ideas that she was trying to cram into nine minutes.

So the process of working with her was to try to narrow her field of vision on this thing and ask her if you could only say one thing.

If people listen to your talk and then they walk down in the hall and their friend said, oh, I missed that one.

What was it about?

What would they say?

What do you want them to say?

And that's really hard.

And I totally empathize with it as someone who tried to do it the year before.

There's this terrible inclination to try to boil the ocean.

And it's very painful to let go of the opportunity to say three things or four things.

But it's unwise to bite off that much.