Philosophy, logic, and the art of thinking clearly. Learn to question assumptions, reason carefully, and develop intellectual precision.
View courseBachelor of Liberal Arts · Daily curriculum
The schedule.
Four years of education, one lesson at a time. Each day is a single focused lesson — about an hour of work. Days build into weeks, weeks into semesters, semesters into a degree. Volume 1 is live now and open to everyone.
4 years
8 semesters
600+ lessons
~1 hr / day
How it works
One lesson a day. Everything connects.
The curriculum is built around a simple rhythm. Each semester contains five courses running in parallel. Each day advances one of them. You don't need to figure out what to do next — the schedule does that for you.
Day
One lesson, one hour
Each daily lesson is self-contained — a reading, something to watch or listen to, and a short writing or thinking exercise. Open it, do the work, close it. Done.
Week
Five courses in rotation
Each week moves through all five courses — one lesson per course. Monday through Friday, you're working in a different discipline each day. By the end of the week, you've advanced in all five.
Semester
15 weeks, 75 lessons
One semester is 15 chapters. Completing it means you've done 75 lessons across five disciplines — the equivalent of a full college semester in terms of hours and depth.
Pace
Your schedule, your pace
The recommended rhythm is one lesson a day, five days a week. But you can go faster or slower. What matters is consistency — not speed. Showing up daily is the whole system.
Depth
Go further when it clicks
Every lesson has an optional Hard Problem — a deeper exercise for topics that grab you. When something speaks to you, follow it. Rabbit holes, extra reading, side research — all of it counts.
Trust
The parts that don't click yet
Some lessons will feel abstract or irrelevant. Do them anyway. Things connect in ways you can't predict — a concept from Week 3 often unlocks something in Week 11. The curriculum is designed for that. Trust the structure.
Volume 1 — live now
What a semester looks like in practice.
The first semester is called Foundations. It's the clearest example of how the curriculum works — five courses running in parallel, building the core tools of a liberally educated person from the ground up.
Rhetoric and storytelling. Find your voice, shape compelling arguments, and write with purpose and clarity.
View coursePatterns, relationships, and meaning. Math as a language for understanding the world — not memorization or formula-chasing.
View courseObservation, experimentation, and discovery. Practice science the way scientists do — with hands-on inquiry and genuine curiosity.
View courseMaking, designing, and imagining. Hands-on creative work that builds the habits of an original, self-directed thinker.
View courseVolume 1 · 15 weeks · 75 lessons
Browse the first semester.
Each chapter is one week. Open a chapter to see all five daily lessons, or jump straight to any day. Week 1 is where everyone starts.
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Week 1
The Beginning of Inquiry
Days 1–5 · What is worth learning? Opening questions across all five disciplines.
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Week 2
Logic, Voice, and Pattern
Days 6–10 · Reasoning clearly, finding your voice, and seeing the patterns around you.
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Week 3
The Examined Life
Days 11–15 · Self-examination, argument, proportion, balance, and the joy of play.
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Week 4
Truth, Structure, Infinity
Days 16–20 · Perspectives on truth, structural writing, limits, energy, and visual story.
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Week 5
Rhetoric and Uncertainty
Days 21–25 · Persuasion, audience, probability, vibration, and creative improvisation.
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Week 6
Writing as Clear Thinking
Days 26–30 · Clarity, statistics, light, and the relationship between thinking and writing.
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Week 7
Math as Language
Days 31–35 · Geometry in nature, gravity, design thinking, and source-based writing.
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Week 8
Ethics and Beauty
Days 36–40 · Moral reasoning, revision, symmetry, electricity, and collaboration.
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Week 9
Science and Story
Days 41–45 · Scientific inquiry, oral traditions, numbers in music, and waves in nature.
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Week 10
Imagination and Complexity
Days 46–50 · Creative imagination, media writing, chaos theory, and thermodynamics.
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Week 11
Memory, Identity, Technology
Days 51–55 · How we learn, personal identity in writing, math in modern tech.
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Week 12
Culture, Data, and Scale
Days 56–60 · Cultural worldviews, data visualization, the scale of the universe.
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Week 13
Technology and Thought
Days 61–65 · How technology shapes thinking, writing, and mathematical philosophy.
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Week 14
Knowledge and Reflection
Days 66–70 · Philosophy of knowledge, reflective writing, math as creative act.
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Week 15
Your Manifesto
Days 71–75 · Final reflections — your philosophy of learning, writing, math, science, and creativity.
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Start where everyone starts.
Week 1, Day 1. The first question. Open it and begin.
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