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Lessons

Everything, as a flat list, for when you know what you are looking for.

  1. 01Every lesson
  2. 02The routes through this
  3. 03Enrolment

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

Curriculum

The routes through this

Read the whole thing before you decide whether to enrol.

  1. Path 1

    Foundations

    The twelve lessons everything else assumes. Start here even if you think you can skip it.

    3 lessons · 1h 21m

  2. Path 2

    Applied practice

    Twelve lessons taking the foundations into real work, with an exercise at the end of each.

    3 lessons · 2h 42m

  3. Path 3

    Going deeper

    Eight longer lessons on the parts that only matter once you are competent.

    2 lessons · 1h 24m

Membership

Enrolment

Audit

Free. The first lesson of every path.

Free

  • The first lesson of each path
  • The public discussion room
  • Open sessions
Start learning

Student

Recommended

The whole curriculum.

$29/month

  • Every lesson in every path
  • The discussion rooms and study groups
  • All live sessions, live and recorded
  • Exercises, files and notes
Start learning

Reviewed

With your work actually marked.

$89/month

  • Everything in Student
  • Written feedback on every exercise you submit
  • A monthly one-to-one, thirty minutes
  • Priority in the work-review sessions
Start learning

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.

  • Applied 1: your first real piece of work

    Applied26 min

    Free to everyone. What changes when it is not an exercise.

  • Foundations 4: replacing rather than reusing

    Foundations32 minMembers only

    The lesson that catches most people. Now with the step that used to be skipped.

  • Foundations 2: the first three moves

    Foundations28 minMembers only

    The three things you will do in every single piece of work after this.

  • Foundations 1: what this is actually for

    Foundations21 min

    Free to everyone. Twenty minutes, and the only lesson with no exercise.