The build barrier just fell
AI probably can't solve our civic crises, but maybe it can make a difference.
The primitive stack
What counts as a primitive, the three-layer stack we've built, and two very different solutions the same pieces compose into.
Escalator temporarily stairs
Most of higher education makes learners pay up front for a payoff that arrives at the end. Designing the cost to follow the value removes the trap.
Why the degree persists
The college degree solves real problems. If we don't pay attention to what those are, improvement efforts will go awry.
Speed is the method
Institutions talk themselves into waiting, but immediate action often beats waiting, even if it's initially wrong.
The bundle is the challenge
Exploring 'primitives' as modular, standardized components to improve access to higher education.
Within reach
"Julia's journey to a low-cost degree with Modern States, and how a model of working on what's within reach applies to learners and Modern States."
Two steps out
Planning strategy past the horizon is tempting but futile.
The virtue of quick wins
An introduction to some terms and influences. Primitives for higher education and beyond. Institutions earn and sustain the legitimacy to do hard things by...
