12 Favourite Problems

All great journeys start with a question. 🚢

Feynman coined this concept of ‘12 Favourite Problems’ - open ended questions he would keep going back to whenever he came across something new. In today’s world, it’s a great filter to understand whether something is useful for you at that point or not.

Two months ago, Harsh Doshi & I quit our full time jobs to build something together. After building, running & scaling learning programs & the LxD team together at NextLeap for 2 years, we decided to venture into the world of entrepreneurship - trying to learn in a different way.

And while a lot of questions remain unanswered for us. We are clear about questions that excite us. So here are 12 of our favourite problems -

1. How might we prepare learners for careers that don't exist yet in an ever-changing job market?

2. How might we create safe learning experiences for our learners that encourage expression and productive failure?

3. How might we provide strong feedback loops to learners that can provide them visibility and opportunities for growth?

4. How might we leverage AI to personalise learning experiences?

5. How might we empower educators and learning experience designers with AI-driven tools to solve for operational challenges?

6. How might we create accessible, interactive, and inclusive learning experiences for students with diverse learning needs and abilities?

7. How might we implement problem-based learning as a cross-disciplinary approach, encouraging students to collaboratively address complex, real-world challenges throughout their education?

8. How might we instil a passion for lifelong learning, encouraging self-driven exploration beyond formal institutions?

9. How might we create engaging learning experiences that are embedded in the real-world?

10. How might we evangelise learning within the education space and beyond?

11. How might we better instrument our data systems to capture learner feelings, behaviours and emotions?

12. How might we reimagine the assessment and evaluation processes in education to provide more holistic and authentic measures of learning and growth?

We have half-baked answers based on our experience for some problems, while for others we’re still at the very beginning of the summit.

If you’re curious to explore any of these problems together - here is the link to my calendar. I look forward to chatting and attempt answering these questions together :)