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Guidelines

Three paths, forty-odd lessons, live sessions every fortnight, and a room where the questions get answered.

  1. 01Community guidelines
  2. 02Every lesson
  3. 03Who makes this
  4. 04Start learning

How we behave here

Community guidelines

This room only works if it is safe to be a beginner in it.

No question is too basic. Not as a slogan — as a rule. Answers that imply somebody should already know are removed.

Answer the question that was asked. Then, if you like, the better question they should have asked. In that order.

Post work before it is good. Work in progress is for the middle of things. Nobody is judged on a draft.

Say what you tried. "It does not work" cannot be answered. "I tried X and got Y" can be, usually within an hour.

No selling, no recruiting, no promoting your own course. Instructors included.

Do not share the lessons. Enrolment is per person. Files you download are yours; the videos are not.

How we behave here

Community guidelines

This room only works if it is safe to be a beginner in it.

No question is too basic. Not as a slogan — as a rule. Answers that imply somebody should already know are removed.

Answer the question that was asked. Then, if you like, the better question they should have asked. In that order.

Post work before it is good. Work in progress is for the middle of things. Nobody is judged on a draft.

Say what you tried. "It does not work" cannot be answered. "I tried X and got Y" can be, usually within an hour.

No selling, no recruiting, no promoting your own course. Instructors included.

Do not share the lessons. Enrolment is per person. Files you download are yours; the videos are not.

Behind it

Who makes this

Dr Amara O.

Instructor

Teaches the foundations path. Fifteen years doing this before teaching it.

Ben H.

Instructor

Teaches the applied path. Answers questions faster than anyone should.

Katya L.

Moderator

Finished all three paths. Now mostly answers other people’s questions.

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Nina G.

Moderator

Runs the Tuesday study group.

Lessons

Every lesson

Everything in the lessons
  • Applied 11: the part everyone asks about in office hours

    Applied36 minMembers only

    Newly added. Enrolled students have it at no extra cost.

  • Every exercise, as files

    Files2 minMembers only

    All the exercises and their starting files, in one download.

  • How long this actually takes

    Start here6 min

    Free to read. Honest numbers from students who finished, not from us.

  • Going deeper 4: reading somebody else’s work

    Depth50 minMembers only

    Fifty minutes, and the lesson Reviewed students get the most out of.

  • Applied 7: when the brief is wrong

    Applied40 minMembers only

    What to do when what you have been asked for is not what is needed.

  • Going deeper 1: the trade-offs nobody tells you about

    Depth34 min

    Free to everyone. Read it before deciding whether this path is for you.

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The first lesson of every path is free. Enrol when you want the rest — no deadlines, no expiry, nothing to fall behind on.

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