@Learn_Awesome

Project discontinued in 2024. (Google + GoodReads + Google Maps) for lifelong learning. Open-source and free. By @nileshtrivedi

github.com/learn-awesome/learndb
Joined April 2019
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I finally pulled the plug on @Learn_Awesome. A few reasons: - Human curation will become super valuable in the age of fast-changing knowledge and AI-generated content and therefore, will suffer even more from the free-rider problem (curators do all the work without getting much help from the leechers). - Want to rethink tagging, taxonomy and similarity search using vector embeddings. - It now seems possible to automatically build interactivity with personalization into existing curated static content. - I would now prefer building for small but engaged user groups rather than anonymous web visitors.
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Nat Eliason
@nateliason15 Jan 2023
I'm trying to reprogram my brain to stop describing things as "hard"
Don't say it's hard. Say challenging or complex instead.

ALT Don't say it's hard. Say challenging or complex instead.

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New feature: Roadmaps learnawesome.org/#/roadmaps
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Learning principles: Projects, Passion, Peers and Play 👍👌 (h/t @scratch)
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Thinking about moving the community chat from Slack to somewhere nicer. What would you prefer?
80%Discord
0%Matrix/Element
0%Rocketchat/Mattermost
20%No change (Slack)
5 votes • Final results
Good news! 🎉🙂 We can now receive sponsorships and contributions thanks to @github sponsors and @opencollect: github.com/sponsors/learn-aw… opencollective.com/learnawes…

Sponsor @learn-awesome on GitHub Sponsors

LearnAwesome is a GoodReads-like social network for lifelong learners which also includes a rich knowledge graph of learning resources categorized by topics and formats. We also have a web extensio...

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What do you want to learn this month?
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Made a few improvements: - Added a section "Do Good" so that it feels less narcissistic/self-indulging - Life-stage (age) slider is now persisted in localStorage Try it here & suggest improvements. Note: your data is NEVER sent to the server: learnawesome.org/life.html
Learn Awesome@Learn_Awesome13 Mar 2021
ToDo lists feel very short-term focused. I built a simple page that shows me the most important things in life. You can try it here: learnawesome.org/life.html It's a single HTML file that works offline. No data is ever sent to any servers.
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the quicker people build lifelong education into a parallel system you can seriously opt-in to in lieu of the mainline k-12-college-grad school legible education, the better. i am starting to feel like it is pretty mission critical; like education is getting profoundly bad
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Paul Graham
@paulg3 Sep 2021
People seem to treat their current amount of knowledge as a constant — sometimes almost a matter of identity. E.g. they'll say "I am a non-technical person" instead of "I haven't learned to program yet."
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The rotten culture in the organizations is often propagated from the top to bottom. Please counsel your staff, friends, whosoever to not shell out their hard-earned money on these apps, plenty of free, good resources are available. Check - @cs_pathshala, @Learn_Awesome.
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow30 Aug 2021
Replying to @doctorow
But as @AkankshaMSingh writes for @restofworld, the company's sales culture is rotten from top to bottom, with sales staff hustling poor parents to take out predatory loans so that they can hit their sales targets. restofworld.org/2021/inside-… 2/
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LearnAwesome's open-source code repo is now @gitpod ready! Simply visit a URL to get a full-fledged development environment with pre-loaded database, terminals for all needed processes, and a proper web URL to see your changes in action! 😲🥳🎉 See the README.
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Simply click on the Gitpod badge in the README to get started: github.com/learn-awesome/lea… Here is our gitpod config if you are curious: github.com/learn-awesome/lea…
We were on a hiatus for past few weeks, but we're back now. Bring on your bug reports and feature requests!
🥳🎉New features for course-creators! You can now make your course invite-only. Create invite codes & define their limits. Most common reason is to require a payment for your course! 💸 A course can now be run by multiple teachers with access to dashboard and chat rooms! 🎉
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This super-secret technique is what makes our courses work so well 🤫
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Coming soon: LevelUp - a course format with peer group, mentoring, challenges/accomplishments - leveraging Internet's best learning resources. If you'd like to run an online course in this format, please DM.
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Mentors curate learning paths using existing materials on the Web, learners progress through a series of challenges and build a portfolio of accomplishments. Level-wise chat rooms with peers and mentors.
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Light-weight for the mentors (very easy to manage a class of hundreds), but rigorous and effective for the learners. This is how online learning in 2020s should be like. Level-wise challenges will let you build a portfolio of projects which are preferred over degrees these days.
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ToDo lists feel very short-term focused. I built a simple page that shows me the most important things in life. You can try it here: learnawesome.org/life.html It's a single HTML file that works offline. No data is ever sent to any servers.
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Huge thanks to @vainsh for help with the visual design. Design requires problem-solving and this guy is fantastic at this craft!
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