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Opportunity Knocks

Andrew Buher

A newsletter about championing, building, and accelerating opportunity for kids.

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Latest Issues

Opportunity Knocks #148: Modern Matters of Consequence (lessons from The Little Prince)

I recently introduced my oldest daughter to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic, The Little Prince.

It had been a long time since I read it. My grandmother used to read it to me when I was a kid, so it was meaningful to share.

Throughout,...

6 days ago
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Opportunity Knocks #147 - Should we teach kids taste?

Taste is hot right now. But it’s hot in a vague way: everyone seems to agree it matters, no one seems sure what to do about it. Exhibit A:

Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s President and Co-founder

Brockman is onto something, but there are actuall...

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Opportunity Knocks #146 - Magic elevators, gated rooms, and AI

In Sebastian Mallaby’s excellent new biography of DeepMind’s Founder and CEO, Demis Hassabis, The Infinity Machine, there’s a throwaway line about how a student dropping out of a prestigious U.K.-based university in the late 1990s would hav...

a month ago
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Opportunity Knocks #145 - Last week I asked what happens to kids when AI takes their parent's job. This week I mapped where the risk is highest in NJ.

Last week I asked a question I couldn’t stop thinking about: if, and when, AI displaces a parent’s job, what happens to the child?

One of my recommendations was to stop waiting for the fallout and start mapping the potential exposure.

So...

2 months ago
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Opportunity Knocks #144 - What happens to kids when AI takes their parent's job?

In January 2026, U.S. employers announced 108,000 planned layoffs, a 118% increase from the same month last year and the highest January total since the Great Recession. More than 45,000 tech jobs were cut in the first quarter of 2026. Orac...

2 months ago
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    Dad, husband, teacher (@ Princeton University), former @ Opportunity Labs, former COO @ NYCDOE and White House Fellow. Focused on opportunity for all children.

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