Why character became the scarce thing, and how this app is laid out.
By the end — You can say what a beacon is and find every part of the app.
7 modules · 33 lessons
Learn to run a beacon
The framework, the test, the gates, and each step of using this app to work them. Every lesson ends with something to do in the product and a short check that you have it.
The lessons are free and need no account. Signing in records your progress; the final exam and the certificate are on the paid plans.
The modules
Nine questions a machine cannot answer for you, one lesson each.
By the end — You can name which virtue a decision needs and what it asks of you.
Six steps from a person's problem to something other people can reuse.
By the end — You have a worked BEACON worksheet for a real community problem.
Ten questions to answer before anything ships, and how a verdict is reached.
By the end — You can score a project and act on a blocking failure.
The check that stands between being able to publish and publishing.
By the end — You can hold your own work back, and say which gate stopped it.
Return on Technology, the Beacon Equation, and reading your own record.
By the end — You can tell capacity unlocked from content produced, and find your bottleneck.
One, ten, one hundred, then ten teachers — and how to stop being the bottleneck.
By the end — You have handed your beacon to someone else and know your next four weeks.
What you will have at the end
- A worked beacon for a real problem, with a named person at the centre of it.
- A scored design, a cleared gate check, and a record of what actually happened.
- A method somebody else has taken and made their own.