Hi all! I’m starting an email list for BetterExplained readers and everyone interested in deep, intuitive learning. Sign up with the form below or click here to sign up.
Why Should I Sign Up?
If you like the blog, you’ll enjoy the email list too. I’ll be sharing the insights & techniques that took me from “huh?” to “aha!” on topics in math, programming, and communication. These periodic emails will include:
- Exclusive content & previews
- Short learning tips / essays / additional material that weren’t the right fit for the blog
- Q&A on topics that are bothering you
- Announcements & discounts for BetterExplained products I think you’ll enjoy
The blog explains ideas as I wish they were taught. The email list shares information I wish I’d seen.
Why Start an Email List?
A few reasons:
Email has better interaction. I can write, you can read & reply at your leisure. Social media seems noisy and non-personal — I want a conversation. (I credit Scott Young and patio11 for jump-starting the email idea).
The medium shapes the message. Blog posts are great for long-form, single-topic articles. Email favors shorter, bite-sized pieces. I found myself holding back material because it wasn’t a “blog-fit” (but still valuable!).
Better sustainability. The goal of BetterExplained is to be a lifelong project. Keeping in touch ensures the material stays useful and enjoyable, and that products (like the existing ebook + screencasts) dramatically increase your understanding.
I love blogging and will always write. Email is another method to get quick feedback, with blog posts to distill the final results.
I’m so thankful to have a little corner of the internet to share ideas, and I love hearing about and discussing the aha! moments that made things click. Let’s raise the bar for our teaching and learning: keep in touch!
-Kalid
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It seems that going to email will limit who interacts and who learns from these interactions. I would suggest a message forum to allow short messages while being open for others to view.
Kalid, speaking of the medium shaping the message, I suggest making the articles into videos – that’ll branch out into an untapped audience.
@James: Thanks for the feedback! I plan to put a lot of the email content on http://aha.betterexplained.com (as an open forum), so it’ll be a way to discuss it publicly too
. I think the email list is a way to kick-start the conversation.
Also, I’ll have the emails I send out archived in a public place.
@Jay: Great point. I’ve started a youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/betterexplained/videos) which I plan to add to over time. Thanks!
@James **That’s exactly what came to my mind when I heard about this.** You can always CC* everyone when replying with something interesting to the e-mails, but not everyone will/can do that and the conversation/flow will get pretty fragmented and confusing (even ‘Conversation View’ won’t be of much help in this case).
@Kalid aha.betterexplained is pretty good in implementation and _great_ in concept, but it’d be _really_ nice if we had something more, _StackExchange_ style. **Why not [create a site](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/create?category=science) dedicated to this concept?** If you don’t want seperate hosting and urls, you can implement something like what [Udacity](www.udacity.com) did with its [forums](http://forums.udacity.com/cs262).
Simply awesome…
Great.. extraordinary work…
Thank you so much for all your posts…
Keep rocking
@Sethupathy: Thanks for the encouragement!
Math. Like Algebra, Precalculus, & calculus
I am reading your Calculus: Building Intuition for the Derivative & just signed up for your Email.
Thanks
Waldo
Thanks Waldo! Appreciate the topic suggestions, I plan on covering a variety of math
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Just now signed up for email newsletter after reading about complex numbers … Great work Kalid… Last but not the least .. Thank You!!
Your articles are excellent “maps” and a great tool. I’m sharing them with others who can benefit, and plan on following your map concept to document a training process I’m currently working on.
Thank you so much for sharing your insight!
@Syed: You’re welcome!
@Kim: Thanks so much, glad it’s coming in handy!