8 tweets · November 2020 · 112 likes · 0 retweets · read on Twitter
The number of online courses I have signed up for & not actually completed is absurdly high. Especially self-paced ones but even like… I dropped out of @fortelabs' BASB halfway. Watched a lil of @nateliason Roam course. Early backer on @m_ashcroft's AT course, haven't touched.
Signed up for @mattgoldenberg's Procrastination Playbook bootcamp and didn't go to most of the sessions. He held a pretty good container for us exploring what schemas might have been active for me around "homework" & shoulds & stuff there though—kudos.
And that's far from a complete list. Part of this probably reflects not so much a lack of follow-through but an over-optimism about *buying* courses, only to discover that they don't really feel like they're addressing my real situation/bottleneck.
The only online course I can recall completing is @ribbonfarm Longform blogging course and I'm sure that was online possible because it was live & had an external deliverable. Felt less like a course and more like "onramp to RF guest post".
I want like... a thing where when I go on twitter, my feed randomly includes content from online courses I've signed up for, not just tweets. Why can't this content be folded into my natural dopamine hooks? Hmm...
I'm taking in a deeper layer of this experience of mine is a huge part of why the Goal-Crafting Intensives we host are structured the way they are: • a couple optional pre-event exercises • live 5h sessions w 10min vids, exercises & coaches complice.co/event/plan2021…
Even the pre-event exercises are quite compatible with people not doing it all at once but kind of opening it up periodically randomly. 💭 Dream List benefits from background rumination & reverie. 📅 Time Audit benefits from logging over the course of a week.
@AskYatharth can your co-lifing concept create an ongoing platform that gets people doing courses together? Maybe even different courses, just like, showing up to learn together! Or maybe a Complice coworking room explicitly for working MOOCs & other online courses… hmm 🤔