Hi, I’m Jade.
It started with a question
My first child was born in 2026.
But the question started earlier. While I was still pregnant, I kept wondering: by the time my child grows up, in an age when AI can do almost anything, will college still matter? AI is already an essential part of my own work. It has changed how I design — but it hasn’t replaced my judgment about what’s good, or what actually helps the people I design for.
I went looking for an answer as a skeptic. So I did what I always do: gather the data first, then decide. I used AI tools to organize admissions data from hundreds of US colleges, tens of thousands of search queries, and public employment and earnings data from the U.S. government.