2026 is the great lock-in year. You can already feel it. - Crypto people are reconsidering everything - many jumping ship to AI - The vanity metric era is dying. People want substance now. Real revenue, real users - TCS, Deloitte, Wipro employees are spending nights learning to code with AI - Most of my friends are grinding 5–6 extra hours daily - upskilling, building - Twitter is full of people shipping products who couldn't write a line of code 6 months ago - Everyone wants to start a business. No one wants to depend on a job anymore - Old narratives are collapsing. Countries, institutions, systems — none of it hits the same anymore - The old idols fell off after the Epstein list. A new generation of role models is rising The cost of starting something has never been lower The cost of staying still has never been higher The window is open. It won't stay open forever.