Thanks Petra! I've been kicking around ideas for an "intuitive wikipedia", guides explicitly (and realistically) designed to get you from curiosity to mastery.

Thanks Petra! I've been kicking around ideas for an "intuitive wikipedia", guides explicitly (and realistically) designed to get you from curiosity to mastery. Wikipedia has a few problems: * Too much detail for beginners (to be fair, it's a reference, not a tutorial) * Too difficult to contribute. Even excellent contributors have to fight to get changes in. * Generic, boring, academic "tone of voice" (kills the fun for me) Previously I'd tried to make apps, forums, etc. to help aggregate this, but it was over-engineering. My idea: 1) Have a topic like the Fourier Transform 2) Write a tutorial (http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/ http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-...) 3) Collect feedback [see comments on article], examples, diagrams, etc. Make it easy to contribute an insight. 4) Weave the final result into an honest, realistic guide from curiosity to mastery. (I don't have one built yet for the Fourier Transform.) I'd prefer to organically grow the guide out of our shared experience vs. "imagining" what a hypothetical student needs. (The hypothetical student should study limits for weeks, then derivatives, then integrals. In my experience it's the other way around.) For scaling, getting the first few right should hopefully make a template others can take and run with. As long as we're dealing with text, it's infinitely editable and updatable. (Why are we so enamored with video? We can't fix our inevitable mistakes!) I'd love to chat more if you like! Just ping me at kalid.azad@gmail.com.