The last few years have seen a burst of new educational platforms. Khan Academy, Coursera and edX, were just a few. At the core of all of these platforms is the same thing: video lectures. This doesn’t surprise me. When I listed the courses I followed during my experiment to learn MIT’s computer science program […]
Learning on Steroids is Now Open
Learning on Steroids is a program I’ve been building over the last three years, designed to give you access to the best ideas in productivity and learning faster. These are the methods I used during my MIT Challenge, and have been shaped and improved upon by thousands of members having been through the program already. […]
Free Learn Faster Bootcamp (Starts Tomorrow)
I enjoy writing articles, but what I really like is when people take action and use the ideas. Starting tomorrow I’m putting on a one-week free bootcamp designed to teach you the skills to be more productive and learn faster. Every day I’ll send out a new idea as well as a quick action step […]
Why Focus (not Effort) is the Key to Getting Stuff Done
Around the time I started this blog, I was obsessed with habits. The psychology is fascinating and the idea that you could reprogram your behavior was compelling. After all, how much could you accomplish if you never failed to act on what you planned? The science of behavior change makes it exciting too: operant and […]
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