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3 claims Joe Liemandt made fit 3 mental models. Most often: Bottlenecks, Feedback loops, Trade-offs. Everything they said here.

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Bottlenecks

A system moves only as fast as its narrowest point; speed up anything else and nothing changes.

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When a child starts struggling with algebra the problem is almost never algebra; it is the third-grade math facts they never learned, and more algebra will not fix it.

  1. Joe Liemandt Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School And that's why when kids get to algebra and they start to struggle, the issue is not the algebra. The issue is the third grade math facts they didn't learn. And the way to fix the problem is not pound them with more algebra. It's to go fix the third grade problem. How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com · 31 Aug 2026 · 0:53:59 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    And that's why when kids get to algebra and they start to struggle, the issue is not the algebra. The issue is the third grade math facts they didn't learn. And the way to fix the problem is not pound them with more algebra. It's to go fix the third grade problem.

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    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com

    31 Aug 2026 · video · 2h 33m · spoken · machine transcript

Feedback loops

Shorten the loop between doing and finding out; whatever a loop rewards is what you become.

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AI is education's microscope: the first instrument that gives learning science a closed measurement loop at the level of one child.

  1. Joe Liemandt Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School AI because it's on a onetoone basis is giving us a data loop that nobody in learning science no one in education has ever had and we have it. It's a closed loop and that magical data loop is what's allowing us to get the five to 10 times improvements in education because it's our microscope. How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com · 31 Aug 2026 · 0:44:50 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    AI because it's on a onetoone basis is giving us a data loop that nobody in learning science no one in education has ever had and we have it. It's a closed loop and that magical data loop is what's allowing us to get the five to 10 times improvements in education because it's our microscope.

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    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com

    31 Aug 2026 · video · 2h 33m · spoken · machine transcript

Trade-offs

Every choice gives something up, so name the cost; and check, because some trade-offs everyone assumes are not real.

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The insistence that any education innovation must serve everybody at once and for free is the poison that stops education innovating at all.

  1. Joe Liemandt Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School in education there's a concept that I think is really poison and why we have trouble innovating in education which is there's a view that you must serve everybody all at once for free like just anything you do in education no matter who it's for they're like I'm going to come up with a counter example where it doesn't work for everybody all at once for free and that's not how products are developed How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com · 31 Aug 2026 · 2:08:57 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    in education there's a concept that I think is really poison and why we have trouble innovating in education which is there's a view that you must serve everybody all at once for free like just anything you do in education no matter who it's for they're like I'm going to come up with a counter example where it doesn't work for everybody all at once for free and that's not how products are developed

    Watch from 2:08:57 plays here

    ↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com

    31 Aug 2026 · video · 2h 33m · spoken · machine transcript