L1 — Foundation

No prerequisites. Starts from zero.

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AI-01L1What a Language Model Actually Does→ A tested mental model — three experiments run on a real model and written up AI-02L1★How to Use Claude, Step by Step→ A configured workspace, a working Project, and your own prompt template AI-03L1★How to Use ChatGPT, Step by Step→ A configured workspace with custom instructions, one working Custom GPT, and a data file analysed AI-04L1★The Anatomy of a Prompt→ Your own five-part prompt template, plus three saved templates for jobs you actually repeat AI-05L1Which Model for Which Job? A Comparison You Can Actually Use→ Your own decision table matching model tiers to the jobs you actually do AI-17L1AI Ethics and Your School's Policy: Where Learning Ends and Cheating Starts→ Your own written rule for using AI on schoolwork, checked against your school's actual policy CR-01L1★The CV / Résumé That Actually Gets Read→ A finished one-page CV with every bullet rewritten as an outcome, tested against a real job ad CR-02L1★LinkedIn: Building Findability, Not a Profile→ A live LinkedIn profile built to be found, with a headline, About section and three real connections CR-06L1Finding Work Experience: Internships, Shadowing and Volunteering→ A target list of 10 realistic places and a tailored outreach pitch you can send this week DT-01L1★Reading Data: Mean, Median, Spread — and the Lie of the Average→ Three real datasets summarised correctly — mean, median and spread — with the misleading summary identified in each DT-02L1★How Charts Lie: Eight Manipulation Techniques→ A detection list of the eight techniques, applied to three real charts found in the wild DT-03L1Correlation Is Not Causation, With Real Examples→ Four real causal claims taken apart — for each, the four possible explanations tested and the most likely one named DT-07L1Ten Cognitive Biases and Where You'll Meet Them Today→ A diagnostic card of the ten biases, each matched to one real moment from your own last week DT-09L1★A Four-Step Protocol for Verifying a Source→ Your own four-step verification checklist, applied to three claims you actually ran into this week DT-12L1★How the Algorithm Knows You→ A before/after record of your own feed — the 20-click experiment run on a real account LN-01L1★Active Recall and Spaced Repetition: Studying That Actually Works→ A spaced review schedule built for a real exam, with your first recall session done LN-07L1The Mechanics of Procrastination: Why It Happens, What It's Doing→ A procrastination-intervention plan for one task you're avoiding: the feeling named, the next physical action defined, one friction removed LN-08L1Test Anxiety and Thinking Under Pressure→ A pre-exam routine tested once, plus the expressive-writing technique tried before a real or mock test MN-01L1★What Are You Actually Buying When You Buy a Stock?→ The ability to read an order book, and to see a share as ownership MN-03L1★Index Funds and ETFs: Why This Is the Right Answer for Most People→ A written comparison of a single stock, an active fund, and an index fund — on cost, spread and evidence MN-04L1★Compound Interest: The Maths of Time (and of Debt)→ A modelled scenario in a spreadsheet: the same money as savings and as debt, on one chart MN-08L1★Opening Your First Investment Account — Including Custodial Accounts Under 18→ An investment account opened (or a custodial one set up with a parent), ready to use MN-11L1★Building a Budget and a Cash-Flow System→ A working budget from your own real numbers, plus a simple system that runs each week NP-01L1★What Neuroplasticity Actually Is: How Experience Rewires the Brain→ A tested mental model of how experience physically rewires the brain — written up against one habit of your own NP-02L1The Neuron and the Synapse: The Physical Unit of Change→ A labelled model of a neuron and synapse, annotated with where learning physically happens NP-03L1★"Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together": Hebbian Learning→ A rewiring map for one skill or habit — the exact pairing of cue, action and timing you'll train NP-04L1Critical Periods vs. Lifelong Plasticity: What Changes, and When→ Your own age/plasticity chart — which abilities have closing windows and which stay open for life NP-11L1The Myths: Left/Right Brain, "10% of Your Brain," "Fixed After 25"→ A myth-buster card — five brain myths, the truth, and the mechanism, to keep and share PS-01L1★The Skeleton of a Talk: Message → Structure → Slides, In That Order→ A one-page talk plan: one message, three sections, and a slide list you haven't built yet PS-02L1★Six Rules for Slides (and PowerPoint's Bad Defaults)→ One real slide, redesigned — before and after — following the six rules PS-06L1Managing Presentation Anxiety, Technically→ A tested pre-talk routine and a memorised, drilled first thirty seconds SO-01L1The Mechanics of Interaction: Turn-Taking, Signals, Repair→ A mental model of conversation as a system, plus a logged observation of three real conversations' mechanics SO-02L1★The Small Talk Protocol: Your First Five Minutes With a Stranger→ A recorded rehearsal of a first conversation, plus three real small-talk attempts logged SO-03L1★Active Listening: The Most Discussed, Least Practised Skill→ A listening audit across three real conversations, with counted behaviours SO-08L1★Setting Boundaries and Saying No: Four Scripts→ Four boundary scripts written in your own words, and one of them used for real SO-13L1The Anatomy of an Apology — and What Isn't One→ A written apology for a real situation, tested against the five parts and stripped of every fake move SO-15L1★Consent and Dating Ethics: Clear, Revocable, Non-Negotiable→ Conceptual clarity — a written account of what consent is and the situations that make it absent SO-20L1Tone in Writing: Texts, Email, Slack→ Five of your own messages rewritten, with the specific reason each original misfired SO-21L1Timing: Choosing When to Have the Conversation→ A timing checklist, and one conversation actually scheduled TC-01L1What a Computer Actually Does: CPU, RAM, Disk, OS→ A labelled model of what happens when you open an app — the job the CPU, RAM, disk and OS each do TC-02L1★How the Internet Works: DNS, HTTP, Servers, Browsers→ A traced request: every step between typing a URL and the page appearing, written in your own words TC-03L1★The Terminal: Your First 20 Commands and Why It Still Matters→ Real work done in a shell: files organised, renamed in bulk, and searched — all from the command line TC-04L1★Python From Zero: The First 10 Concepts→ Your first program: a working script that takes input, makes a decision, and does something useful TC-09L1Your First Page With HTML and CSS→ A styled web page you built by hand — real HTML and CSS in one file, opened in a browser TC-11L1★Security Basics: Password Manager, 2FA, and the Anatomy of Phishing→ A secured account set: a password manager in use, 2FA on your key accounts, and passkeys where offered TL-01L1★Spreadsheets From Zero: Formula Logic and Your First 15 Functions→ A working budget sheet built from your own real numbers, with 8+ functions and no hard-coded values TL-05L1Building a Personal System in Notion→ A working personal dashboard in Notion: a task database, a notes area, and one linked view TL-07L1★A Calendar and Task System You'll Actually Keep→ A working two-part system — one calendar, one task list — set up and run for real for three days TL-08L1Keyboard Shortcuts: Buying Back Three Hours a Week→ Ten shortcuts you didn't already use, drilled to muscle memory over a week, with the mouse-reach they replace named TL-09L1File Architecture, Naming and Backups→ A folder structure and naming convention set up on your own files, plus a working backup of what you can't afford to lose TL-12L1Design Tools: Canva and Figma Basics→ One finished, exported design asset made with deliberate layout choices