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Built for the decade ahead
Every category is curated around the capabilities employers and founders are hiring for right now.
Artificial Intelligence
LLMs, prompting, deep learning & applied ML.
02Data Science & Analytics
Statistics, Python, SQL & data storytelling.
03Business & Entrepreneurship
Strategy, growth, finance & startups.
04Creative & Design
UX, visual design, motion & brand craft.
05Technology & Coding
Web dev, systems, cloud & software engineering.
06Leadership & Productivity
Management, focus, communication & teams.
Get inspired to start today
A handpicked playlist of talks that spark momentum. Press play, then go build the skills of the decade.
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
The legendary commencement on doing what you love.
Grit: The Power of Passion
Why perseverance beats talent in the long run.
The Power of Believing You Can Improve
How a growth mindset rewires what you can learn.
The First 20 Hours
How to learn any new skill faster than you think.
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Start with why and bring people with you.
Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator
A funny, sharp look at beating procrastination.
A curated library of lessons & tutorials
Search across handpicked courses and videos. Filter by skill area and level to find exactly what you need today.
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Machine Learning Crash Course
Google's fast-paced, practical intro to ML with TensorFlow.
Practical Deep Learning for Coders
Build real deep learning models from the first lesson.
Hugging Face NLP Course
Transformers, tokenizers & fine-tuning, hands-on.
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
Best practices for prompting LLMs in your apps.
But what is a Neural Network?
The classic, beautifully animated intro to neural nets.
Python for Data Science (Full Course)
End-to-end Python, pandas, NumPy & analysis.
Data Science Fundamentals
Free IBM pathway covering data literacy & tools.
SQL for Data Analysis
Query, join & aggregate real datasets with SQL.
Entrepreneurship 101
MIT's framework for building new ventures.
How to Start a Startup
The legendary Stanford + YC lecture series.
Financial Markets
Yale's Robert Shiller on finance & risk.
UX Design Fundamentals
Core UX principles, research & usability.
Graphic Design Bootcamp
Typography, color & layout from scratch.
Motion Design Principles
Animation timing, easing & interface motion.
Responsive Web Design
HTML, CSS & accessible layouts, certified.
CS50: Intro to Computer Science
Harvard's iconic intro to programming & CS.
Full Stack JavaScript
Build & deploy modern full-stack apps.
Learning How to Learn
The world's most popular course on effective learning.
Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence
Lead teams with empathy, focus & resonance.
Deep Work & Focus Mastery
Strategies for distraction-free productivity.
Top free AI courses & providers
The fastest way into modern AI, taught by the labs and institutions building it. All free to start.
Machine Learning Crash Course
Practical Deep Learning for Coders
Hugging Face NLP Course
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
Nine featured course providers
Reputable platforms offering world-class learning at no cost.
Google AI
Free courses, tools & ML crash courses from Google.
DeepLearning.AI
Andrew Ng's hands-on deep learning specializations.
fast.ai
Practical, code-first deep learning for everyone.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Free MIT lectures across CS, math & engineering.
Hugging Face
Open-source NLP, transformers & the AI course.
IBM SkillsBuild
IBM's free AI & technology learning platform.
OpenAI Academy
Official learning resources & docs from OpenAI.
Anthropic's Claude
Guides on leveraging Claude for AI productivity.
Coursera Free Tier
Audit thousands of university courses for free.
Curated YouTube channels worth following
The creators and labs we keep coming back to. Subscribe and learn the skills of the decade for free, one video at a time.
freeCodeCamp
Full-length, free courses on web dev, Python, data and more.
Fireship
Fast, high-signal breakdowns of modern tools and frameworks.
3Blue1Brown
Beautiful visual intuition for math behind machine learning.
Two Minute Papers
Digestible tours through the latest AI research breakthroughs.
StatQuest
Clear, friendly explanations of statistics and ML concepts.
Andrej Karpathy
Build neural nets and LLMs from scratch with a founding researcher.
Y Combinator
Startup playbooks and founder lessons from the top accelerator.
The Futur
Design, branding and the business of creative work.
Ali Abdaal
Evidence-based productivity, learning and life design.
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