Courses made to order

For everything you've been meaning to learn.

The concept from this morning's meeting. The paper that's been open in a tab since March. Tell Sophia what you want to learn, or hand her the file, and she builds you a private course of short cards, with diagrams where they help.

Quick questions belong in a chatbot. This is for the things worth a course.

Teach me Formula 1 aerodynamics.

Turn this paper on tail latency into a course.

the-tail-at-scale.pdf

Teach me how Kubernetes is designed.

Teach me concurrency control in distributed systems, starting with optimistic locking.

Turn this CRISPR lecture into a course.

CRISPR gene editing · 41:08

Teach me double-entry bookkeeping from first principles.

Prepare me to lead a reading group on Attention Is All You Need.

attention-is-all-you-need.pdf

Teach me how the Bauhaus shaped modern design.

Use these sources to teach me how Costco makes money.

3 articlescostco-annual-report.pdf

Teach me how the global semiconductor supply chain works.

Teach me Formula 1 aerodynamics.

Turn this paper on tail latency into a course.

the-tail-at-scale.pdf

Teach me how Kubernetes is designed.

Teach me concurrency control in distributed systems, starting with optimistic locking.

Turn this CRISPR lecture into a course.

CRISPR gene editing · 41:08

Teach me double-entry bookkeeping from first principles.

Prepare me to lead a reading group on Attention Is All You Need.

attention-is-all-you-need.pdf

Teach me how the Bauhaus shaped modern design.

Use these sources to teach me how Costco makes money.

3 articlescostco-annual-report.pdf

Teach me how the global semiconductor supply chain works.

01 · Ask

No catalog. Just ask.

There's nothing to browse. Ask for exactly what you want, like “teach me Formula 1 aerodynamics”, and Sophia researches the open web and writes the course. Bring your own sources and she works from those instead.

Just ask

“How does the kube-scheduler actually work?” is a complete request. Sophia does the reading and writes the syllabus.

Or bring your own

Drop in a paper, a link, or a 40-minute talk. Sophia reads the whole thing and builds the course from what's inside it.

Built like a curriculum

Sections, lessons, and cards, ordered the way a good teacher would order them. Building courses is the only thing Sophia does.

02 · Send

Send it the moment you find it.

The thing worth learning turns up mid-thread in your inbox, or halfway through a conversation with your AI assistant. Forward the email, or let the assistant hand it over, and the course is waiting in your library.

Email it to her

Forward the newsletter or the link you'd otherwise star and forget. Nothing to open, nothing to fill in.

Or let your assistant send it

You're deep in a problem with Claude and it leans on an idea you've only ever half-understood. It hands that idea to Sophia and carries on. Sophia speaks MCP.

03 · Learn

Made to be finished.

Every course is a deck of cards, one idea each. Read the whole thing in a sitting, pull up a card while the kettle boils, or schedule it and take a short stack each morning until it's done.

One idea per card

Five spare minutes gets you a whole lesson.

Morning stacks

Schedule a course and Sophia deals you a few cards each morning. Done in a week or two.

Every card can talk

Ask a follow-up right on the card. Sophia answers with the whole course in view.

04 · Keep

A shelf of things you actually finished.

Every course stays. A year of this leaves you with a shelf you can point at.

Keep the streak alive

The counter is a reason to open the app on a Tuesday night.

Pick up where you left off

Sophia remembers your place in every course, down to the card.