The creator presents Coursera's expensive online degrees as a problem, then provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a personal, AI-powered learning system for free. He explains how to set up a database, use various tools to capture online content like articles and videos, and then use a specific AI prompt to automatically process this content into study guides and quizzes, arguing this active learning method is more effective than his own $40k college degree.
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If you want the prompts + tools here comment “library” and I’ll send em your way!
College was sick dude - I do not regret it. I got to meet a ton dope people and have some great experiences. But if I had to start over with the entire goal of simply financial success in my head, I would have taken the money and put it into a startup knowing I’d learn a ton more that way.
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Founders are plagiarizing Coursera. Remember this? Everyone thought courses were doomed because of AI. And how did Coursera do this? Almost double their revenue since ChatGPT? Largely because of the posting, like, $40,000 degrees? Let's steal that $40 back. Create a table like this one. Whenever you happen to stumble across a cool video or article that you would like to learn about, save it using one of these Chrome extensions. You can also, like, text it to yourself and then use one of these platforms to save it to that table that you just created. Now give your AI agent this prompt right here. It will create a skill that does this. Look at the recent YouTube videos or articles that were saved to the table, group them by topic, rank generate a series of study guides and quizzes and shit. Technically, you good swap no l m for like any of these. I paid like $40 for a degree from UT Austin. I haven't really used it at all, but I have used all the shit that I've self taught myself over the years. In my experience, you're not gonna learn from like best watching YouTube vids passively. You're gonna learn from taking the infinite knowledge that's on YouTube and then like quizzing yourself and shit later. Follow your boy while you're at it. I'll teach you how to AI hack shit for free.