The Receipt That Made Me Rethink Everything Last March, I found a crumpled receipt at the bottom of my handbag. It was from a kitchenware shop â $89 on a copper fondue pot. I have never made fondue. I have never even eaten fondue. Yet somehow, standing in that store, the purchase felt reasonable, even…
The Receipt That Made Me Rethink Everything Last March, I found a crumpled receipt at the bottom of my handbag. It was from a kitchenware shop â $89 on a copper fondue pot. I have never made fondue. I have never even eaten fondue. Yet somehow, standing in that store, the purchase felt reasonable, even…
The Question More People Are Actually Asking Right Now Let me start with something I’ve noticed talking to career changers over the past year. The question isn’t really “should I go back to school?” anymore. It’s shifted to something more specific: “what’s the fastest, most affordable way to credibly signal that I know what I’m…
The Promise We Thought We’d Never See When I first heard about Khanmigo back in 2023, I was skeptical in that deeply tired way that comes from watching education technology overpromise and underdeliver for twenty years. Another AI tutor? Another thing that would supposedly replace teachers? Another tool that would be abandoned by spring break?…
The Rapid Shift: From Eight States to Nineteen in Two Years Something significant is happening in American education right now, and it’s moving faster than most policy changes do. As of January 2026, nineteen U.S. states have passed or implemented laws restricting student smartphone use during the school day. That’s more than double the number…
The Five-Year Reality Check: Where We Are Now Let me start with something I wish someone had told me when I first heard the hype around Google Career Certificates: the story you see on social media is almost never the whole story. Five years after Google launched these certificates in 2020, we now have real…