Writing

Notes on product, AI, and how learning actually works

Short pieces from what I'm building in education technology — assessment, AI in the content pipeline, and lessons from the classroom that still hold up.

August 22, 2026 · 3 min read

Your most brilliant expert might be your worst teacher

The first lesson came back as a notebook full of Python that a student had no chance of following. Breaking a problem back down is a separate skill from being good at it, and most of us with expertise have never been asked to learn it.

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July 22, 2026 · 4 min read

Nobody taught me how to teach. The classroom did.

I prepared for years to teach. None of it stuck until a room of teenagers, a week I couldn't plan for, and later a stack of scenario cards taught me the job. Why experience is the real teacher — and why we have to build it on purpose.

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July 19, 2026 · 4 min read

Stop testing students. Let them do the job.

Everyone called him lazy — until he got to solve a real problem instead of pass a test, and floored the room. Why I stopped testing students and started having them do the job.

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