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Wonder, blunder, salve, solve! Working on tools that expand what people can think and do. Past: led R&D @KhanAcademy; helped build iOS @Apple.

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    Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 30
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    Guided meditation apps have some fascinating media properties! Their lessons are naturally spread out over time—the author can unfold an idea over hundreds of days of real calendar time, or return to an idea intermittently from different angles. Few mass media forms can do that!

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      2. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 30
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        The mental model for "lessons" is also unusual. When I sit down to meditate, I don't think of myself as "taking a lesson"—I'm sitting down *to meditate*. Yet the sessions actually do include authored lesson-like content! Contrast this to the experience of a cell biology class:

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      3. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 30
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        In a typical class, lessons are the focus, and activities are clearly both secondary and subservient to the lesson content. Going to a structured cell biology lab, you don’t think “I’m gonna investigate cellular biology”; you think “today’s lesson is a lab instead of a lecture.”

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      4. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 30
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        The inverted framing of the meditation lessons ("I'm going to meditate and incidentally hear some instruction" instead of "I'm going to listen to a lesson and incidentally meditate") is powerful because it turns the lessons into *actually doing the thing*.

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      5. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 30
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        Team sports and things like Peloton have a similar vibe: the mental model is "I'm gonna go play soccer," but the coach does may actually have a lesson in mind. More:https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2LoRpSoo5Un8EbqkZEjJjvjM1BYLLQD1VJM …

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      6. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak May 1
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        Andy Matuschak Retweeted Stephen Malina

        Great point here. I agree—I think the answer is no. One potential reason: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zScaFc6MhijMiEBDhumEXFWiuJ8o4eYX7FpH …https://twitter.com/an1lam/status/1256283770635812864 …

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        But, to use your language, do these apps / activities push people beyond plateaus in the same way deliberate practice does (as you discuss in your notes)? My sense is no. Of course, I suspect this is a design challenge not a fundamental limitation :).
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      1. Muscarian Games‏ @muscarian_games Apr 30
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        Within the Wires tells a story in the form of meditation tapes. At least, for the first season.http://www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires/ 

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      1. Drew Coffman‏ @DrewCoffman Apr 30
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        So true! It also engenders us to create a habit in a way that making the ‘learning’ primary never will, right? Few people are going to say “I’ll listen to a ten minute lecture before bed every night” but that’s what they’re doing when they habitally turn on the Daily Calm.

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        This is the "quibi" I could buy into

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        I can think of electronics and signal processing classes that can do it in terms of lessons structured around projects. But currently they are not done that way.

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      1. Jethro Lorenzo Garcia Lising‏ @JethroLising Apr 30
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        Guided meditations are neat! But sometimes ya gotta venture into the subconscious by yourself. Experience raw experience as it is, without any external influence or framing.

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