Hi Reader,

I'm very excited to see more and more of you publishing your courses! (although using Traverse exclusively for self-study is great too!)

I'm working on some features to give you more insights in how your students are doing, and to manage your content. To start, you can now see the number of students who have finished each lesson. This way you can see how popular your course is, and at which lesson students tend to drop off 📈

I'm working on a roadmap where you can submit and vote for more features you want! For now, you can reply to this email with a feature request and I'll add it to the roadmap 🛣

Course highlights

Here are just a few of the courses published on Traverse in the last weeks:

Rony Kris created a course to get started building NoCode tools.

Shane Leigh has made a course on Astronomy.

And JrNesc shared some useful notes on programming in Java.

A solution to remember books and apply ideas 📚

I finally found a solution to remember books I read.

I've written many summaries of books I've read in the past. But if you ask me about any of those books now, I likely won't be able to tell you more than 1-2 sentences.

Clearly those summaries haven't helped me remember much.

But a few weeks ago, I read the brilliant book "Never split the difference" by Chris Voss. He uses his experience as a hostage negotiator to teach effective negotiation techniques which help you let your boss, clients, partners, spouse and children have it your way. These are some powerful techniques I really wanted to remember.

What I noticed was how he uses stories from his career to introduce the main ideas and techniques.

Then it struck me that stories are not only the best way to introduce an idea, but also to remember and apply those ideas in real life!

Summaries are boring, cold and abstract. Stories are engaging, emotional and relatable.

I put this to the test and extracted three stories from the book, which I connected to the 30 main learnings from the book.

By just going over these stories once, I was able to recall the stories the next day, but also 29 of the 30 learnings connected to the stories! Moreover, I was able to apply one of the learnings in a negotiation situation in real life the next day!

So forget writing summaries and start telling stories to remember and apply what you read.

I have written down the exact process and an example story so you can try this for yourself!

​Check it out at and tell me about the results you're getting!

Storytelling for Teachers and Creators

Telling a great story makes all the difference between a memorable learning experience and dry theory. Stories make your content engaging, emotional, relatable and applicable in real life.

This Friday, we are conducting a free workshop on how to craft great stories for your students!

Lifetime deal

We launched on AppSumo last week with an exclusive lifetime deal for Traverse, which has proven to be quite popular 🙏

If you're on the free plan this is a great opportunity to upgrade. Or tell your friends about the deal!

​Link to the AppSumo deal​

Happy learning and creating,

Dom

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