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Justin Skycak

Chief Quant, Director of Analytics at Math Academy. Posts about learning, upskilling, math education, Math Academy, and more generally, stages 2-3 of Bloom's talent development process in hierarchical skill domains.

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Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com.(If you've changed your mind, click here to unsubscribe, please avoid marking spam.) Here are 3 new posts: The Bar For Joining the Technical Workforce is Skyrocketing~150 words • ... and the bar for graduating school/college is cratering Math Trauma Isn’t Really About Math~100 words • Math trauma tends to be less about math and more about being asked to do advanced maneuvers before you've...

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Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com.(If you've changed your mind, click here to unsubscribe, please avoid marking spam.) Here are 3 new posts: The Math Academy Prequel: Jason Roberts’s Origin Story~750 words • What do Jeff Dean, Travis Kalanick, and a 6'7", 350lb mountain man who collaborated with John Conway have in common? They're part of Jason Roberts's origin story, shared for the first time. When I took DiffEq in...

Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com.(If you've changed your mind, click here to unsubscribe, please avoid marking spam.) Here are 3 new posts: Why I Care So Much About Self-Service Learning~150 words • Most people, and especially most kids, don't understand that you can skill-equip yourself an Iron Man suit and fly off the default path that life sets before you. Most people don’t hate math. They hate the cognitive friction of...

Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com.(If you've changed your mind, click here to unsubscribe, please avoid marking spam.) Here are 3 new posts: How To Get The Most Value Out Of a STEM Degree~50 words The Process of Building Intuition Can Itself Be Counter-Intuitive~400 words The Longer You Wait Before Building The Life You Want, The More Likely You Are To Settle For Something Else~100 words And a new podcast: OpenEd Podcast:...

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