Zero

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Tortoise in a 100M race 🐢 That’s today’s education system trying to keep up with an AI-native world. Curriculums update every decade. Technology updates every few weeks. The next billion learners won’t wait. Education needs to be rebuilt — from static degrees to adaptive systems, from classrooms to continuous intelligence. We don’t need faster turtles. We need a new race. #FutureOfEducation #AINative #EdTech #LearningReimagined EducationReform AIinEducation NextBillion SkillBasedLearning DesignForAI BuildInPublic StartupIndia GlobalEducation TechAndEducation CreatorsOfTomorrow

Education needs to be rebuilt. Rat race needs to end. We need a new race not faster tortoise.

Sooo…For the last week I was quietly losing my mind trying to find a video editor in Vietnam. The product design team at @zero.university , me and four absurdly talented humans, is shifting from designing the product to figuring out growth marketing. Meta ads, Foreplay, competitor UGC, every rabbit hole the internet has on the topic. And in the middle of all of it, I kept thinking, Damn it! we need a real editor. Where am I going to find one of those in Hoi An, urgently. Turns out four out of four people on the team can already edit. At a level I had no idea about. �@__fluffyycloud learnt to make movies at NID before he learnt design. Cut, colour, art direction, all of it. �@rasheemhamsa__ has been doing motion graphics for fifteen years, starting as a kid on real film sets.�@sabaresh.blend ’s superpower is figuring out anything beyond 3D, and he just goes and does it. �@sanjay.b.chauhan is, annoyingly, just good at everything.� The gap I’d convinced myself existed didn’t exist. The team I’d been working with for months had this whole other skill stack I never knew. Then a viral pigeon video showed up on Twitter. And I thought, why do we keep making sad ass performance ads? Why can’t we just make fun ones, find things we actually find hilarious, and bend them toward what we want to say about Zero? What’s up there is the first attempt. Akshay and Rashi pulled it off in two days. It’s funnier than anything I would have written sober. A small thing you should know. Zero is opening for beta soon. My job for the next month is to get a specific number of you onto that list. Which means I’m going to be in your face. Daily. We have a lot more bangers lined up after this one, and this team is, in actual fact, insane. Save yourself the pain. Join the list now. Hats off, Akshay & Rashi. You two are absurd. •�•�• #BuildInPublic #FoundersJournal #IndianFounders #DesignFounder #AIAds indian founder design founder small team ai ad founder journey runway video startup beta first time founder

@pixelandpump put me on interaction design this week, which is funny because I usually live in 3D and have spent maybe zero hours of my life thinking about how a button should feel when you tap it. He sent the file over and I had that weird thing happen where I couldn't tell if I was nervous or excited, because it's really the same feeling, just pointing in different directions. Small animation for when someone finishes a task, just a few seconds of motion, how hard could it be, and it turned out to be harder than I thought. My first version was loud, with a bounce and a little sparkle and the kind of energy I now realise was me trying to prove I was doing something, and when I watched it back I expected to feel proud but instead I felt this strange flatness, and it took me a while to understand that the flatness was the point, that I'd made one of those animations you've seen in a hundred apps where every tap is treated like you just summited Everest, and after a while you stop noticing, and worse, you stop trusting it, so by the time you do something that actually matters the celebration has nowhere left to go. So I went the other way and stripped almost everything out, and god it was worse, because now the tap just happened and the screen didn't move, and there's this specific lonely thing that happens when you tap something and the app doesn't notice you, like telling a story to someone who's half on their phone. I sat with that tension for two days. Somewhere between Everest and ignored is this very small window where the moment actually lands, and I kept asking myself why I cared so much about a second of motion, and then I remembered what we're building. ZERO is an AI-native edtech and talent product, and whether someone comes back tomorrow isn't a metric we chase, it's the whole product, and these tiny moments where the screen notices you basically are the experience, and the yes has to land just right because a hundred of those yeses are what turn someone who started a lesson into someone who finishes a course. Anyway, first time doing this and I think it's broken me a little, in a good way. By the way, ZERO Beta is launching soon. Join the waitlist.

I've been thinking about this all week and I want to write it down before the feeling fades. I'm a 3D generalist by title. Engineer before that. The clip you're seeing is a WIP of an onboarding moment we're building into ZERO, our product. First time someone opens the app, they'll meet a card like this one. Vishnu made the card. He's our visual designer and the work is beautiful. Normally a piece like this would sit in a Figma file for weeks waiting on the dev team to bring it to life. We'd write a spec, hand it over, wait, and by the time we saw it move, the original feeling was already gone. This time I just opened Claude Code and built the experience myself. A few hours. That's it. I keep coming back to how strange that is. Not strange-bad. Strange in the way something feels when you realize a door you thought was closed has been open for a while. The thing I want to share isn't really about the card. It's that I'm watching people on our team do this constantly now. The PM prototyping. The designer prompting. The 3D person writing code. Nobody is sitting on their hands waiting for someone with the "right" title to make their idea real. Our engineers still ship the actual product. Always will. But the rest of us got handed a way to show what we mean, and it's changing how it feels to come to work. If you've been quietly wondering whether you're "allowed" to try the thing outside your role, I think you already know. #DesignEngineer #VibeCoding #ClaudeCode #ProductDesign #BuildInPublic

If you had to start over, would pursue the same degree again?

The ships are on fire. So start swimming. What specifically do you do that an AI genuinely cannot replicate?

“I’m just being realistic.” No. You’re just getting comfortable with not finding out who you could’ve been. Think about it.

Education gave us a sense of control, study this, write that, and you’ll be fine. But life isn’t built like a question paper. It doesn’t tell you what matters until you’re already living it. #USColleges #CollegeLifeUSA #AmericanCampus #USStudents #CollegeNetwork {college life, skills, Amazon, USA, US colleges, student networking, campus culture, soft skills, real world skills, college communities, learning beyond syllabus, career readiness, Edtech, AI, Education, Learning}

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The irony of 2026: Your laptop might be your biggest liability, but your hands, your physical presence, your heartbeat are your greatest competitive advantages. {college life, Anthropic, job, graduate, 2026, US colleges, student networking, campus culture, soft skills, real world skills, college communities, learning beyond syllabus, career readiness, Edtech, AI, Education, Learning} #USColleges #CollegeLifeUSA #AmericanCampus #USStudents #CollegeNetwork