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Spaced Repetition in the AI Era: Why Your Anki Deck Still Matters (But Needs an Upgrade)
Spaced repetition is the highest-ROI learning technique we have ever discovered. It is also the one most learners abandon inside a month. Here is how AI changes the math — and what the new workflow looks like in practice.
The Socratic Method in the AI Era: Why Answer-First Tools Are Hurting Your Learning
AI can answer any question in seconds — and that is exactly the problem. Here is why the tools giving you instant answers are also quietly sabotaging how much you actually learn, and a four-step protocol for flipping the dynamic.
Ritsu Is Live: An AI Tutor That Makes You Do the Learning
Ritsu launched October 19, 2026: an AI tutor that plans your own chapter or lecture, asks you to explain each idea back, holds solutions until you try, and brings back what fades. Why that order matters, and how to run it with or without Ritsu.
What Is the Illusion of Competence? Why Studying Feels Like Learning
The illusion of competence is feeling that you know something because it looks familiar. Where the feeling comes from (smooth explanations, easy pages, smooth practice), a worked example, and three checks that replace it.
SQ3R Method vs Active Recall (2026): Which to Use With AI
SQ3R gives a hard chapter a shape before you read it; active recall shows you what stayed after. We ran both on the same textbook section, then show where AI helps each and where it quietly does your remembering for you.
Can You Truly Learn Anything? What Learning Science Says
Some people start ahead; far fewer learn faster from each attempt than you'd think. What research says about ability, prior knowledge and practice, and a one-week plan to learn one idea from one source.