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Written by Simas Zurauskas. Cognitive science behind the recall queue, engineering behind the live-streaming lessons, and the product principles that shape what Strive does — and what it deliberately doesn’t.
You finish a course feeling smart, then three weeks later most of it is gone. Here's what the research actually says about why that happens, and the design choice we built Strive around.
Most people don't believe retrieval practice beats re-reading until they see the numbers. Here are the three studies that nail it down, and what to do about it on a Tuesday afternoon.
A 5-minute routine for keeping what you just learned, without setting up Anki, building 500 cards, or learning a scheduling algorithm. Just a calendar and a notebook.
Most AI products show a spinner while the model writes. Strive doesn't. Here's the engineering behind streaming structured lesson blocks to the browser as they generate.
A 19th-century psychologist sat alone with a metronome and discovered the most replicated finding in cognitive psychology. Most of online learning still acts like he didn't.
We pulled the onboarding goals from 1,820 v1 signups and ran the cluster analysis. Here's what people actually want from an AI course product, and what we changed because of it.
Most "AI tutor" demos are RAG over course material. That pattern is a great fit for Q&A and a poor fit for generating coherent curricula. Here's the trade-off.