Toying with the idea of a stream-course. Structured like an online course with newer lessons dependent on older lessons, but with indefinitely extended structure like a salon/seminar series/YouTube channel. Individual lessons would have pre-reqs. An evolving DAG basically.
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Effectively, this would model the “major” abstraction but dissolve the “course” abstraction. You’d have courses unbundled into lessons and living as first class citizens in the stream-course or major. To understand a lesson you’d need to backtrack through the specific DAG subtree
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Does this sound interesting? You’d access via monthly subscription fee that would increase modestly as the content accumulated via a formula that discounts access value of older modules and saturates at a lifetime max cost. Say $5/mo increasing over years to $10/mo
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This feels like the best structure for some of my favorite topics that I might like to coursify like visual thinking, breaking smart, office politics/slightly evil, temporality. Room for both improv and building, steering flexibly while growing.
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It’s an unbundled-middle format. I feel the scoping theme of a “major” adds value, and the “lecture” unit is still the best atomic module. But the “course” level of structure really adds no value at all.
Cc: and other online course people.
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I have to investigate whether teachable allows for hop on/hop off pricing. Or pausing billing. That would be nice+fair if instructor goes too long without adding new content modules.
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Basically I want to be able to “blog” a course on the production side, since I suck at waterfall production of content.
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Teachable does let you do subscriptions which I assume people could cancel and restart to hop on/hop off - support.teachable.com/hc/en-us/artic
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The model I thought of based on your subscription was more like Stratechery than a course.
He just updated how his backend is organized with a "concepts" section and a "companies" section.
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The concepts are the base lessons and then the companies sort of form DAGs building off them in specific directions. I'll forward you the email.
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Im subscribed to stratechery though I don’t keep up systematically... and haven’t explored the site at all
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I think that would work well b/c it's pretty easy to justify ~$100/year. All you need is a few good ideas for it to be more than worth it.
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We've modeled 3 major parts of Praxis (wordpress content, discourse forum, memberful subscriptions) directly on Stratechery whenever possible. It works beautifully
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