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Courses: learn a little, try a little.
Our courses come by email, one short lesson at a time. Each one is a quickstart: enough to get you going on a topic, from AI to art to your own next five years, with one small thing to try each week. If it clicks, there's a deeper course to grow into.
Free quickstart
Futures Literacy Foundations
Five short lessons over about two weeks, one for each habit. Each takes about five minutes to read and ends with one small thing to try.
- Notice what's changing
- Make sense of it
- Lay out your options
- Try something small
- Keep what works
Status
We're putting the finishing touches on it. Join the list and lesson 1 will be in your inbox the day it opens.
How it works
Start small. Go deeper when you're ready.
Quickstart
A few short lessons by email, some free, some paid. You finish knowing the basics and having tried one thing yourself.
Intensive course
A longer course with projects and feedback, for when you want to really dig in.
Coming next
What we're working on.
These aren't ready yet. Some will be free and some paid. Tell us which one you'd want first, and we'll let you know when it opens.
Planned
Intro to AI and AI coding tools
What today's AI can and can't do, then your first small project with an AI coding assistant. No coding background needed.
Planned
A survey of visual art with AI
How artists are using AI for images, video and design, what's fair to use, and how to try it with your own ideas.
Planned
Hype or real?
How to read a technology headline: what moved, how close it is, and what is still a claim.
Planned
AI and your work
What is actually changing in jobs like yours, what to learn first, and what to ignore.
Planned
Your next five years
Use the five moves on your own life: work, money, family, neighborhood.
Planned
Leading through change
For managers and program leads: is the block skill or setting, and what to do about each.
Who they're for
For grown-ups, 18 and up.
No background needed. If you're curious and can read the news, you belong here. Our work with young people happens through WITF!, with its own safety rules.
While you wait.
The letter is free, comes out twice a month, and is a good way to get to know us.