The curriculum
Fourteen capabilities, ordered so each one makes the next easier. You can start anywhere — the order is a suggestion, not a gate.
- 01
Digital Foundation
Use a computer without fighting it
Files, folders, formats, browsers, cloud storage, passwords. The invisible layer everything else sits on.
5 lessons1 hr 30 min - 02
Find the Answer
Find out what you don't know, and check it
Search properly, judge a source, decompose a question, research a contested claim, read dense documents.
5 lessons3 labs1 hr 44 min - 03
Think Clearly
Tell a fact from a claim, and generate real options
Evidence, inference, bias, misleading statistics. Then the creative side: producing options worth choosing between.
5 lessons1 hr 36 min - 04
Working With AI
Direct an AI, then check its work
What AI is good and bad at, framing a task before prompting, prompting well, and catching confident nonsense.
6 lessons1 labs1 hr 56 min - 05
Getting Unstuck
Make progress when you have no idea how
The protocol for not knowing: isolate, reproduce, search, test, document. The skill that keeps every other skill alive.
5 lessons1 hr 32 min - 06
Communication
Be understood the first time
Clear writing, professional English, twenty kinds of email, and explaining technical things to people who aren't technical.
6 lessons1 hr 58 min - 07
Working With People
Operate inside an organisation
How an office actually works, managers, clients, disagreement, mistakes, your first thirty days, and professional judgment.
6 lessons1 labs1 hr 56 min - 08
Data
Answer a real question with numbers
Spreadsheets, cleaning, analysis, SQL, charts that argue honestly, and sanity-checking a number before you believe it.
7 lessons1 labs2 hr 18 min - 09
Documents & Presentations
Produce something that looks professional
Documents, decks, PDFs, formatting that survives, and getting information out of a fifty-page report.
5 lessons1 hr 28 min - 10
Building Things
Make working software with AI, responsibly
What a frontend, backend, API and database are. Then building, running, breaking, debugging and publishing something real.
6 lessons2 hr - 11
Visual & Media
Direct an image or a video, not just generate one
Visual direction, composition, light, AI image generation, and the script-to-publish pipeline for video.
5 lessons1 hr 36 min - 12
Automation
Stop doing the same thing twice
Triggers, actions, conditions, APIs, webhooks, and when an AI agent is a worse answer than a plain script.
5 lessons1 hr 36 min - 13
Career
Prove what you can do, and get hired for it
Evidence-based resumes, a credible LinkedIn, a portfolio, GitHub, job search, interviews and negotiation.
7 lessons2 hr 22 min - 14
Money & Safety
Understand your payslip and not get scammed
CTC versus take-home, budgeting, interest, tax basics, phishing, MFA, password managers, deepfakes and job scams.
6 lessons1 hr 54 min
Not sure where to start?
Seven questions, then one recommended path, one first lesson and one first project. Not a list of a hundred things.
Answer seven questions