Blog
Notes on learning + building.
Long-form posts. Currently published on the Bookverse blog; more will live here over time.
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Why you forget what you study (and how to stop)
What the forgetting curve, Anki, and 50 years of psychology research can teach a language learner.
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Nobody understands your Mandarin. It's almost certainly the tones.
The wall most intermediate Mandarin learners hit isn't grammar or vocabulary — it's tones.
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Six months of building Bookverse, alone
Reflections from half a year of building a language-learning platform as a single developer.