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const metadata = {
  "title": "The infinite coast of problem solving",
  "author": "Thomas Wilson",
  "date": "2021-06-13T19:48:00.000Z",
  "slug": "2021-06-13-infinite-coast-of-problem-solving",
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  "tags": ["lexicon", "design", "product"]
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  return `<p>I\u2019m currently designing and building the lexicon, ambitiously explained as \u201Cthe most useful language learning resources in the world\u201D.</p>
<p>The problem is that there\u2019s a lot involved in that, you know? There\u2019s theoretical questions like \u201Cwhat does most useful mean?\u201D and \u201Chow do humans learn languages\u201D?</p>
<p>Then there\u2019s small problems like \u201Cwhat is the shape of the JSON I send to the client?\u201D and \u201Chow do I generate prompts &amp; questions for language learning?\u201D.</p>
<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about these problems, in some capacity, for legitimately years. So it\u2019s no wonder that I come to them with so much gusto.</p>
<p>A lot of the questions are nebulous. \u201CBest\u201D is subjective, and learning is a spectrum. Proposing theories and ideas is okay, but making something and finding out is even better.</p>
<p>The questions are big, and important to me, and so I don\u2019t want an imperfect solution. The tech has to scale, the processes have to be automated, everything has to be <em>just so</em>. I\u2019m building tools for problems I haven\u2019t encountered but know I will encounter. Or would encounter, if I just got on with the work.</p>
<p>Problem solving is fractal. Every step you propose to get from A to B has a whole subset of steps if you look at it closely. If you\u2019re not careful it goes from A -&gt; B, to A1 -&gt; A2, to A1.i -&gt; A1.ii.</p>
<p>It\u2019s like how [the coastline has theoretically infinite length].</p>
<p>What I\u2019m saying is that this week I challenged myself: no code, just design. Just product problems and questions. No infinite coastlines, no cartography.</p>
<p>So I made some designs. They\u2019re down below. This is what happens when I ask the question \u201Cwhat could the future of language education <em>actually</em> look like\u201D and then demand a concrete answer from myself.</p>
<p><img src="${"/assets/blog-images/2021-06-13/dashboard.png"}" alt="${"the lexicon dashboard"}"></p>
<p><img src="${"/assets/blog-images/2021-06-13/guess-empty.png"}" alt="${"guessing a word"}"></p>
<p><img src="${"/assets/blog-images/2021-06-13/guess-answers.png"}" alt="${"guessing a word with answers"}"></p>`;
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