I have many things I want to learn, yet I have limited time. So I drop a lot of them. Similarly, I have too many things I want to teach. Teaching is even more expensive than learning. Thus, I drop even more of them. With Learning Broker, the primary workflow that I want optimise for here is to go from "written note to "memorised fact", and finally to "shareable fact", as fast as possible. My goal is not for learning to be easy. But I wish for it to be convenient and efficient. My goal is to have the fewest amounts of clicks between my recording, learning and teaching.
There is a lot of mystery around the human brain. To the best of our knowledge, the only way to learn something reliably is through repetition. (And more specifically, Spaced Repetition.) People lie to themselves a lot about this. Because they are lazy and do not want to repeat things, they will make up stories about how rote learning is useless, that they are a gifted visual learner or that they already remember everything. Regardless of the bullshit, the truth is what it is. If you do not repeat things, you will not learn them. If you want to learn something, you need to repeat it.
Some people feel like they do not need to repeat things by themselves. Their whole life, they always had a person who repeated things back to them: a parent, a coach, a teacher, a manager, etc. Those people, who know nothing but to depend on others for their learning, are not what this place is for. For them, human coaches, ChatGPT or apps like duolingo are the best. They will all take care of making learning fun, interesting and easy! They will gamify things, ensure nothing is too hard, and manage the learners' motivation. Here, I am attempting something different. I am aiming for people who are self-directed and do not need to be managed. It might be executives or managers who need to remember most things from their strategic conversations. Conversations that are too complex for assistants or AI to pin down the important bits that are worth learning. Or researchers who need to quickly digest and internalise the state of the art from their field, way past what has already percolated to textbooks. Or people like me, who just want to learn as much as possible, and want it to be as efficient as possible.