How Our Members Run a Good Discussion (and Keep It Kind)
Disagreement is the point of a community like this one. Here is how the best threads on the site manage to argue hard and stay warm.
By Site Admin · Thursday, Sep 24
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Why Explaining Something Badly Is the Fastest Way to Learn It
You do not have to understand a subject before you explain it. Explaining it, clumsily and in public, is how the understanding arrives. A note on the single most useful habit on this site.
By Site Admin · Tuesday, Aug 18
What 1,000 Shared Lessons Taught Us About Learning
We read a thousand lessons members shared in the feed. Here is what they have in common, and what it says about how curious people actually learn.
By Site Admin · Sunday, Jul 19
Notes From Our First Ideas Night
Twenty-eight members, one borrowed room, five questions nobody could answer. What happened at our first Ideas Night, and what we would do differently.
By Site Admin · Wednesday, Jul 15
New: Collections, Dark Mode and a Better Reading View
Save what you learn in Collections, read comfortably in the dark, and enjoy a calmer layout for long posts. Here is what changed this week.
By Site Admin · Saturday, Jul 11
Member Spotlight: The Question That Changed a Career
A teacher asked one ordinary question in the forum. Eighteen months later she runs a group of a hundred people. This is how it happened.
By Site Admin · Tuesday, Jul 7
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