Becoming a Wizard-of-Oz learning assistant | Andy Matuschak on Patreon

As I described in December, I’m experimenting with some unusual (for me) new research methods. Data analysis and stacks of user interviews have given me a ten-thousand foot view of learning in action. Now I’m taking the opposite approach. I’m diving in close, trying to understand the emotional and practical consequences of individual learning actions and design decisions, over time. To restate my (admittedly ludicrous) aspiration: I’d like to invent an utterly transformative environment for learning and growth. I want to induce an uncanny, almost alien, feeling of effortlessness and proficiency. So far, I’ve chased that goal by building and iterating on scalable systems. But now, before systematizing or scaling anything else, I aim to produce that uncanny sensation for a single person. I want to make one person feel that they’ve been granted impossible superpowers. Then if I can do it again, and again, I hope I’ll see how to bottle that lightning in a system—a much more powerful system

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