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Newsletter Issue #5Speed is a buyer's metric, not a learning outcome
Any ed-tech pitch gets to speed eventually. Faster to mastery. Two hours a day. Ten times the pace.
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- Taste used to be a byproduct. Now it's a curriculum.One sentence this week did more work than most essays.
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