Level · L2
L2 — Applied
A real task, a real output.
59 lessons · L2
Studying With AI: Feynman, Mock Exams, Error Hunting→ Your own exam bot: a saved study assistant that quizzes you, marks you, and finds your gaps
Hallucination Hunting: A Protocol for Verifying Output→ A four-step verification checklist, applied to a real answer with the errors found written up
Working With Long Documents: Interrogate, Don't Summarize→ One real long document analysed — not summarised — with claims cross-examined against the source
Working With Data: Upload a Spreadsheet, Get Real Analysis→ One real dataset analysed and charted by AI, with the key numbers verified by hand
Build Your Own Assistant: Projects and Custom GPTs→ Three working assistants for jobs you actually repeat, each with a tested instruction set
Image Generation: Prompt Language, References, Consistency→ A small image set built to a brief — consistent style, with references and controlled variation
Your Portfolio: What Do You Have to Show at 18?→ A published portfolio page with three pieces of work, each with a one-paragraph write-up
Interviews: The STAR Method and the Hard Questions→ A bank of STAR answers to the common questions and one full mock interview rehearsed against an AI
Cold Email and Networking: The Message That Gets a Reply→ Five personalised cold messages actually sent, built on a reusable structure
Evaluating a Job Offer: Comparing Roles Beyond the Salary→ A weighted comparison of two real (or realistic) offers across the factors that actually matter, with a decision and the questions to ask before saying yes
Personal Brand and Publishing Your Work→ A simple publishing plan: your niche, your platform, and your first piece published this week
University, Trade, or Building Something: A Decision Framework→ A decision analysis for your own path: the goal named, options scored on requirement/cost/reversibility, and the next concrete step
Your First 90 Days in a New Job→ A 30-60-90 day plan for a real (or imminent) role: what to learn, who to meet, and one early win identified
Sampling, Survey Design and Why Most Surveys Are Junk→ A teardown of three real surveys or polls with each one's fatal flaw named, plus one leading question rewritten neutrally
Logical Fallacies: Where an Argument Actually Breaks→ Ten fallacies you can name on sight, applied to three real arguments — with one of them steelmanned instead of dismissed
Decision Frameworks: Expected Value, Reversibility, Opportunity Cost→ One real decision run through the frameworks: expected value estimated, reversibility and opportunity cost assessed, a defensible choice made
Building Your Own Study System→ A working capture → process → review study system, set up in the tools you already use, running for one real subject
Exam Strategy: Time, Question Selection, Guessing→ An exam-day protocol for one real exam: a time budget per section, a triage order, and a guessing rule matched to its mark scheme
Deep Work and Focus: Training Attention as a Skill→ One designed deep-work block, run and logged, with your single biggest distraction removed by friction
Reading Technical Material: Docs, Papers, Manuals→ One real technical document read with the three-pass method: a one-paragraph summary and three questions it left open
Teaching to Learn: The Feynman Technique, Run With AI→ A plain-language explanation of one concept, the gaps it exposed listed, and one gap re-learned and re-explained
How a Share Gets Priced: Supply, Demand, Market Cap, P/E→ The ability to read a single real stock — its size and the expectation baked into it, not just its price
Risk, Volatility and Diversification→ Your own risk profile — horizon, capacity and temperament written down, and a fund's drawdown checked against it
Inflation, Interest Rates and Currency: How the Three Turn Each Other→ A mechanism map connecting inflation, rates and currency — applied to your own real numbers
Crypto: Where the Technology Ends and the Speculation Begins→ A framework that separates the technology, the token, and the bet for any crypto claim
The Anatomy of a Scam: Ponzi, Pump and Dump, Signal Groups→ A detection list of the common financial scams, applied to three real examples found online
The Real Cost of Money: Fees, Spreads and What the Platform Takes→ A fee audit of one account, app or platform you use, with the annual cost — and its long-term compounded cost — calculatedCredit, Credit Scores and the Maths of Borrowing→ A repayment analysis of one real loan or card — total cost, and the effect of paying more than the minimum
Salary Negotiation: Gross vs Net, Benefits, the Counter-Offer→ A negotiation script for a real (or realistic) offer, with the take-home and total package worked out
Habits as Wiring: The Cue–Routine–Reward Loop, Neurally→ One of your own habit loops mapped and redesigned — cue, routine, reward, rewritten
Sleep and Memory Consolidation: Where Learning Is Made Permanent→ A sleep-aware study protocol for a real deadline — when to learn, when to review, when to sleep
Exercise, BDNF and the Plastic Brain→ A weekly movement plan timed to your learning — aerobic sessions and 'learn-after-moving' slots
Attention Gates Plasticity: Why Focus Decides What Sticks→ A focus protocol for your hardest learning task — environment, block length, distraction removal, error-seeking
Narrative Structure: Why Stories Outlast Facts→ One real message, pitch or section rebuilt as a story with a clear structure — a before/after showing the difference
Presenting Data: Which Chart When, and When No Chart At All→ A chart decision table, and one of your own charts rebuilt with a headline and honest axes
Stage Mechanics: Voice, Posture, Pace, Pauses, Eye Contact→ A recorded two-minute delivery, scored on the five mechanics, with your worst one drilled and re-recorded
Handling Q&A — Including Questions You Can't Answer→ A Q&A prep sheet: your five most likely hard questions with answers, plus your scripts for the ones you can't answer
Persuasion in Writing: Email, Proposal, Application→ One real persuasive message rebuilt on the structure, with a before/after and a single clear ask
Body Language: What Actually Reads, and What's a Myth→ A self-audit of your default body language on video, with two nervous tells named and two signals to adjust
First Impressions: The Warmth and Competence Axes→ A recorded first-meeting rehearsal scored on both axes, plus your two warmth signals and two competence signals identified
Group Dynamics: What Happens the Moment You Walk In→ A recorded 'joining a group' rehearsal, plus a read of one real room mapped before you entered it
How to Open a Hard Conversation→ A written prep sheet and a recorded rehearsal against an AI
Conflict Resolution: Argue About Needs, Not Positions→ A two-column needs map for a real disagreement, plus a recorded rehearsal
Giving and Taking Feedback: The SBI Model→ Real feedback, delivered using SBI, plus a recorded rehearsal of receiving hard feedback well
Pressure Tactics: How a Hard Sell Works and How to Slow It Down→ A detection list of the seven tactics, plus one real pressured decision slowed down and re-made
Trust: How It Gets Built, Spent and Lost→ A trust audit across five relationships, plus one repair actually attempted
Making and Keeping Friends: Why It Gets Harder After 18→ A friendship audit plus a concrete plan: one existing tie to deepen and one new connection to start, with the first action taken
Speaking Up in a Group: Getting Your First Sentence In→ A recorded group-discussion rehearsal where you enter in the first two minutes and reclaim the floor once after being cut off
Networking: Building Relationships, Not Running Transactions→ A 10-person map, plus two genuine reconnection messages sent
Rehearsing with AI: Build a Roleplay Partner→ A working rehearsal bot, two recorded transcripts at different difficulties, and your own scenario library
Your First Real Script: Automate Something You Do by Hand→ A working script that automates one real, repetitive task you actually do — run successfully on your own files
Git and GitHub: Version Control and Why Undo Is Non-Negotiable→ A published GitHub repository with a real commit history and a README, that you built from the command line
What an API Is and How to Call One→ A working script that fetches live data from a real public API and does something with it
Databases and SQL: Your First 8 Queries→ Eight working SQL queries run against a real table, answering real questions about the data
Ship Your Own Site: Domain, Hosting, Deploy→ One real website live on the internet at a URL you can send to anyone
Spreadsheets, Level Two: XLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Conditional Formatting→ An analysis sheet joining two real datasets, with a pivot table and rule-based highlighting
Cleaning Messy Data Into Something Usable→ One real messy dataset cleaned into a tidy table you can actually analyse
Note-Taking: Collect Connections, Not Notes→ A small note system built around linking ideas: five real notes, in your own words, connected to each other
Google Workspace Properly: Forms, Apps Script, Sharing Logic→ An automated form flow: a Form that feeds a Sheet and triggers an action, plus deliberate sharing