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🗡️Learn the Hero's Journey Story Structure

Walk through Campbell's hero's journey one stage at a time, anchored to scenes from Star Wars and The Matrix, then draft a one-page outline for your own protagonist.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

☸️Learn the Four Noble Truths

Walk through the Four Noble Truths as a philosophical diagnosis — dukkha, its cause, its cessation, the eightfold path — with translation notes and comparative context, then apply the structure to a real problem of your own.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

💼Learn Porter's Five Forces: Reading Industry Structure

Write a one-page Five Forces memo for your own market — scoring buyers, suppliers, entrants, substitutes, and rivalry the way Porter meant, using worked examples from airlines, SaaS, and coffee.

Applied~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🏛️Use the Socratic Method to Think and Question Rigorously

Meet Socrates through Plato's early dialogues, walk the elenchus on justice, courage, and piety, then run your own Socratic dialogue against a belief you actually hold.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🔗Master SQL Joins and Query Relational Data with Confidence

See joins as set operations first, then write every join type against a real schema, tune them with indexes and query plans, and finish by solving ten realistic reporting queries.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🎨Master Color Theory and Build Harmonious Palettes

Learn the harmony rules working designers actually use — hue, value, complementary pairs, triads — and leave with a five-swatch mood palette you can defend, pick by pick.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

⛓️Learn the Chain Rule: Differentiate Composed Functions with Confidence

Stop memorizing the chain rule formula and start seeing nested functions the way mathematicians do — as zoom levels on a curve. Finish by deriving a real-world rate of change from scratch.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🎯Learn OKRs: Writing Objectives and Key Results That Actually Work

Draft a quarterly OKR set for your team — one ambitious objective, three measurable key results — by separating inspirational direction from numeric evidence the way Intel and Google actually used them.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🤖AI Strategy for Business Leaders

Cut through the AI hype with a practical framework for evaluating opportunities, selecting tools, and building a phased adoption roadmap — then walk into your next leadership meeting with a decision-ready strategy.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

📊Understand Unit Economics: LTV, CAC, Contribution Margin

Build LTV, CAC, contribution margin, and payback period from raw subscription data — then ship a one-page memo you can hand to an investor without flinching.

Applied~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🌌Understand the Big Bang: Not an Explosion

Reframe the Big Bang as an expansion of space itself, then ground it in Hubble's law, the cosmic microwave background, and primordial hydrogen — and finish by writing a sixty-second explanation that never uses the word 'explosion.'

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🧵Understand Concurrency Memory Models and Write Race-Free Code

Stop guessing whether your atomics need `seq_cst` and start picking orderings from first principles — one primitive at a time — until you can write a lock-free counter that provably can't race.

Advanced~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

λMaster Haskell Typeclasses: From Functor to Monad

Climb the typeclass ladder one rung at a time - Eq, Show, Functor, Applicative, Monad - until real Haskell stops looking like runes, and you can ship a tiny expression DSL built on your own custom class.

Applied~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🏛️Learn the Stoic Dichotomy of Control

Turn Epictetus's famous maxim into a daily sorting reflex — worries in, journal out — until you have your own control template you'll actually open on a bad Tuesday.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

📋Learn the Lean Canvas: A One-Page Business Model for Startups

Pressure-test a startup idea on a single page instead of writing a plan nobody reads. Fill each of the nine boxes with evidence, then walk a real customer through it and capture their pushback.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🏛️Learn the Causes of the Fall of Rome

Trace the compounding pressures — structural, economic, military, and cultural — that broke the Western Roman Empire between the Crisis of the Third Century and 476 CE, then build your own causal map arguing which forces mattered most.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

✍️Learn Show Don't Tell in Creative Writing

Stop writing 'she was sad' and start writing the tissue balled in her fist. Fourteen days of before/after rewrites and spot-the-tell drills that end with a 500-word scene conveying one emotion without ever naming it.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🧠Learn Common Logical Fallacies

Learn fourteen of the most common logical fallacies with real examples from news, ads, and online debates — then prove you can reason fairly by writing one airtight paragraph arguing for a position you personally reject.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🗾Japanese Particles Wa vs Ga

Stop guessing between wa and ga. Build the instinct that articles and videos can't teach — through daily contrasts, dialogue drills, and a capstone where you write a self-introduction and a short story that force both particles into the light.

Applied~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

📈Understand Compound Interest

Turn compound interest from a vague formula into a reliable mental tool — calculate growth over time, apply the Rule of 72 in seconds, and reason clearly about savings, debt, and long-horizon decisions.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🫁Understand VO2 Max

Trace the oxygen delivery chain from lungs to mitochondria and understand why VO2 max is the gold-standard marker of cardiorespiratory fitness.

Applied~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

⚖️Understand the Trolley Problem

Walk through every major trolley problem variant and the ethical theory each one stress-tests, then design your own dilemma that isolates a single moral factor.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🚢Understand the Ship of Theseus

Explore the oldest identity puzzle in philosophy. Learn why replacing every plank of a ship — or every cell in your body — forces you to rethink what 'same' actually means.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🔭Understand the Scientific Revolution

Understand why the Scientific Revolution wasn't just new facts replacing old ones — it was a fundamental shift in what counts as knowledge and who gets to decide.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day