Questions over answers. We don't have requests for startups. We have requests for curiosity. Here's what we're most curious about right now.

If you're looking to do your life's work, you need to treat experimenting, getting to know yourself, the world, and how you fit into it, like your full time job. I know for sure I wouldn't be where I am rn without a community that embraces exploration like South Park Commons does.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and

🎯 "To begin thinking at higher levels, we must first stop thinking about lower levels. ... Students who lack automated number sense struggle with algebra not because they can't understand abstract thinking, but because their working memory is consumed by basic arithmetic that

Build where building creates more opportunities to build.

Brutal truth: Your inability to focus on one thing for an extended amount of time will hurt you far greater than your lack of intellect.

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the

Learn like you lift.

Execution kills anxiety. Thought alone just feeds it.

You’re not tired. You’re uncommitted. Decide and watch energy follow.

It’s a privilege to be able to learn for the sake of curiosity, and not survival.

This is the weak man who created hard times — I found him!

Hey everyone! Quick question. how do you pace yourselves? On the site FAQ, 1 XP ≈ 1 minute of active learning. In my first week, I’ve noticed for brand new topics: ~3x time per XP (e.g. 8 XP = 20–30 min w/ solving, reading, checking work), and for stuff I already know: closer

Does anyone know the XP totals for each course? I remember Justin Skycak sharing a post breaking down XPs for MF series, linear algebra, etc., but I can’t seem to find it now.

Posting daily progress updates can do wonders for building a habit. 1) It creates a streak mechanism, and 2) you feel like anyone who reacts expects another update tomorrow. Both are powerful psychological levers that increase the chance you'll stick to the habit.

Paul Graham was onto something with “keep your identity small.” Most people let their ego steer the conversation. The trick is to have strong ideas without needing them to be you. Curiosity > Identity.

The purpose of education is to inspire the desire for learning in students and make them able to think, understand, and question. Not grades.

An occasional failure mode of serious math learners is jumping straight to the most abstract books without first amassing a zoo of concrete examples. "You might think that you can learn all math simply reading Bourbaki, but that [is] just wrong." Grinding through concrete

Carl Sagan; books remain our greatest technology

Hey everybody. Is the system glitching, or is it just me?