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📊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

⚗️Understand the Periodic Table Beyond Memorization

Stop memorizing the periodic table and start reading it. Learn to predict any element's properties, reactivity, and bonding behavior from its position alone.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🎯Understand Proof by Induction: The Domino Argument That Works

Build intuition for mathematical induction through the domino analogy and concrete number examples, then prove classic identities and write your own induction proof from scratch.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🏛️Understand Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Unpack Plato's cave allegory layer by layer — from shadows and prisoners to the sun and the theory of Forms — then write your own allegory for a belief you had to unlearn.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

📈Understand Limits Intuitively Before You Touch Epsilon-Delta

Build a gut-level feel for limits through graphs, tables, and zoom-in experiments — then use that intuition to evaluate tricky expressions and invent your own limit-breaking function.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🎭Understand Iambic Pentameter

Stop labeling iambic pentameter and start hearing it. Learn to feel the da-DUM pulse in speech and poetry — then write your own lines and break the pattern on purpose.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

💪Understand How Muscles Grow (Hypertrophy Basics)

Cut through gym broscience with actual exercise physiology. Learn what triggers muscle growth at the cellular level — then design your own evidence-based training week.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

📐Understand Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues Without the Algebra Fog

Build geometric intuition for eigenvectors before touching a formula — then compute them, connect them to PCA and PageRank, and build your own mini ranking system from scratch.

Applied~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🕳️Understand Black Holes Without Spaghetti Confusion

Rethink black holes as curved spacetime — not cosmic vacuum cleaners — using thought experiments, scale comparisons, and the geometry that actually traps light.

Foundations~2-week path · 5-8 min/day

🔷TypeScript Type Narrowing

Replace unsafe `as` casts with control-flow narrowing, discriminated unions, and type predicates — then build a type-safe API client that narrows responses by status code.

Applied~2-week path · 5-8 min/day