Neal Kumar Katyal

I really looked.

I wanted to understand her worry.

And I answered the worry.

That lesson is true for all of us.

You don't just got to do it, you get to do it in an interview, in a negotiation, in a conversation that could save a marriage or end one, any place in which you need to reach another human and actually connect.

The question AI poses to every one of us is not, will you be replaced?

The question is, what is the irreducibly human thing that you do?

Go deeper into it.

Not to survive AI, but to come home to yourself.

That's where your edge lives.

So Ben taught me to refrain.

Harvey gave me foresight.

Liz taught me to listen.

And Bob taught me stillness.

Four teachers, four connections, one argument.

an argument that some have called the most important decision the Supreme Court has made in a century.

When I walked into the court that day, I never felt more like I was exactly where I was meant to be.

I brought to the podium no mountain of legal notes, just an email from Liz about the power of connection, and on the top of that,

In my own handwriting scrawled my parents' names, my children's names, my wife's name, the people I was fighting for.

My father was my first audience.