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Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Did That Little Grammatical Tweak Work?

Khan Academy implemented this almost cultural hack which was to make, always make students the most important subject of your sentences. So instead of saying like, where teaching students X, you would change the sentence to we're helping students to learn X. That little grammatical tweak was like a really profound kind of shift in perspective that helped your team constantly be thinking about how they could enable students to be their best rather than sort of dictating knowledge with an authoritarian manner.

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