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Editor’s pick
A clear AI answer feels like understanding until you try to explain it. Three moves catch the gaps — understand it, connect it, teach it back — worked through on why prices rise, with AI or on paper.
Graphite7 min read · Updated
Why this one
If you read one piece here, read this one: the three moves that every other article goes deeper on.
Start here
The editor’s pick sets out three moves. These three go deeper on one each.
Understand it
What learners can borrow from to-do apps: capture every question, ask why and how, tick one off only when you can answer it in your own words, and keep a short list of what’s next.
Graphite6 min read
Connect it
Connected knowledge is easier to understand and keep. How concept maps help you learn, why recalling what you read beats mapping it with the text open, and a ten-minute daily practice.
Graphite6 min read
Teach it back
Explaining something exposes the gaps that reading hides. What research says about learning by teaching, why the best listener knows less than you and asks, and the early evidence on teaching an AI.
Graphite7 min read
Everything · 5 articles
Every piece sits under the one topic it’s most about, and the topics run in the order of the method: understand it, connect it, teach it back.
What it takes to understand something rather than recognise it, and the questions that get you there.
A clear AI answer feels like understanding until you try to explain it. Three moves catch the gaps — understand it, connect it, teach it back — worked through on why prices rise, with AI or on paper.
Graphite7 min read · Updated
Put it to work: The Feynman technique: how to do it, alone or with AI
What learners can borrow from to-do apps: capture every question, ask why and how, tick one off only when you can answer it in your own words, and keep a short list of what’s next.
Graphite6 min read · Updated
Put it to work: The Feynman technique: how to do it, alone or with AI
How links between ideas make them easier to explain, find again and keep.
A folder asks you to choose one home for every thought, but understanding is many-to-many. Why notes work better when folders hold them and links, each with a reason, connect them.
Graphite7 min read · Updated
Put it to work: How to organize notes so you can find them again
Connected knowledge is easier to understand and keep. How concept maps help you learn, why recalling what you read beats mapping it with the text open, and a ten-minute daily practice.
Graphite6 min read · Updated
Put it to work: How to organize notes so you can find them again
Explaining what you know to find out what you don’t.
Explaining something exposes the gaps that reading hides. What research says about learning by teaching, why the best listener knows less than you and asks, and the early evidence on teaching an AI.
Graphite7 min read · Updated
Put it to work: The Feynman technique: how to do it, alone or with AI
From the guides
Step-by-step guides that use what these articles describe, each useful with or without Graphite.
01Write it down
You’ll have: Notes with one place each, links that say why, and a test that you can find them again.
8 min read
02Work it out
You’ll have: One idea explained twice in plain words, the gap between them found, and a template to reuse.
8 min read
03Make something of it
You’ll have: A two-column script for a video — what you say, what it shows — built from your own sentences.
8 min read
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