Field notes from teaching, AI, and the design of Strive.
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.
Product
Your material is not training data
When you upload documents to an AI product, the question underneath every other question is what happens to them. Here is the full answer for Strive — where files go, who processes them, how long anything is kept, what deletion actually deletes, and the places where the honest answer is a hedge.
Jul 30, 20268 min read
ProductWhat 1,820 people told us they wanted to learn — and what it changed about Strive
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.
May 10, 202611 min read