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Learning science, product thinking, and honest updates from the team building Plan2Skill.
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2026-08-07 · 7 min read
Desirable Difficulty: Why Easy Learning Fails
Harder practice — retrieving, spacing, generating — builds skill that lasts; smooth practice builds the feeling of it. AI just made the easy option infinite and instant, which makes deliberately chosen difficulty the whole game.
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2026-07-31 · 7 min read
How AI Will Change the Job Market: Three Groups
AI is not erasing professions — it is re-sorting the people inside them: operators who work with AI daily, multipliers whose playbooks AI hands to everyone, and the unchanged, whose output the market quietly reprices. Which group you join is a skill.
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2026-07-21 · 7 min read
Is ChatGPT Good for Learning a Skill?
For understanding — yes, better than almost anything. For lasting skill — only halfway: a chat answers whatever you ask, but never measures what you can still do without it. An honest comparison of the chat flow, solo self-study, and a measured learning flow.
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2026-07-07 · 5 min read
Why Learning Streaks Don't Measure Learning (And What Actually Does)
A streak measures that you showed up — not whether you can still do the thing when the app is closed. Streaks track consistency, a habit metric; learning is measured by retrieval — can you produce the skill cold, days later, under a little pressure.
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2026-07-01 · 6 min read
How to Actually Learn a Skill with AI (Not Just Ask ChatGPT)
Don't use AI as an answer machine — use it as a coach that makes you do the work: attempt first, let it pressure-test where you break, then practice the gaps. Reading an answer builds familiarity; producing it builds skill.
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2026-04-18 · 7 min read
What is a cognitive graph? How Plan2Skill measures learning differently
Most learning apps count nodes — words memorised, lessons completed. Plan2Skill counts edges. Here's what that means, why it matters, and what a cognitive graph actually looks like.
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