The Future of Education is Community: The Rise of Cohort-Based Courses
[Cohort-based courses (CBCs) can be more easily accomodate new information.]
[Video calls can be recorded, but they don't capture the magic of the experience, which makes it piracy-resistant.]
5 Ways to go from 1k to 2k Newsletter Subscribers
[Show FOMO by highlighting your best content in the landing pages. Prove that they missed something.]
Every Indie Hacker Has an Online Course in Them
[Shift your mindset towards 'allowing people to pay you'—as long as you are delivering the value promised, most people will be grateful for the offering and happy to support.]
[Ask 'so how did you get started?' so that people understand the guest's successes; this creates curiosity to know the details.]
[It's easier to sell one thing for $100 than a hundred things for $1.]
[The people who pay a lot of money need a lot less hand-holding than those who pay little because they invest themselves more.]
[What feels like work to everyone else but like play to you?]
[Frame in terms of outcomes instead of topics. What do they want to do? Who do they want to be?]
[Personal meaning for each student. Peer-to-peer learning. Prompts to action.]
[What's your memorable framework for summing up the medley of information?.]
[The 'birdsong technique' sounds more official than 'sit on the toilet and scroll through Twitter: naming and framing.]
[What would you teach to yourself three years ago?]
[Set input goals instead of outcome goals.]
Acemo: Where They At (Swaya’s remix)
Body-shaker of the week. The original comes alive with African percussion, echoed synths, and a stronger rhythmic drive.
Two things from musical master Jacob Collier, but not really about the music: 1) dance animations created from the spinning of a vinyl disc, and 2) he spells out words by playing the piano. The latter is something that normal humans accomplish via a lengthy editing process on the computer—he performs it live.
This lovely little bossa nova for kids (apparently going viral on TikTok, which I don’t use), comes from The Backyardigans, which is a show where every episode features a different music genre! Wish I grew up watching that… Adam Neely does a deep dive into the music theory devices employed in the song.
Punkt.vrt.Plastik: Somit (2021)
‘Spiky’ avant-garde jazz from Berlin. Vague meters and uneven clocks. I also grooved hard to the slightly steadier Nuremberg Amok from an older album.
The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was
[Google Reader and Feedburner were not victims but weapons used to ensure that only Google was extracting value from the industry.]
[Blogspot was an attempt to populate the search indexes because there was not much content. As advertisers started to push back, it became less worthwhile of an investment.]
[Open-source projects without revenue are either burnout waiting to happen, or a formerly well-paid developer coasting on savings, or a group that took venture capital.]
[Microsoft invests in VSCode, TypeScript, GitHub and npm to create business for Azure and other offerings.]
[The 'money hose' is a mechanism to ensure that big tech can control the ecosystem.]
[Capitalism will always find a way to exploit common resources. It's just a matter of time.]
