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Notes on career readiness and building Nextreks.

What we are learning as we build, and why the transcript stopped being the whole story.

September 15, 2026

The More AI Can Do, the More Durable Skills Matter

As AI makes technical tasks easier, durable skills like judgment, communication, adaptability, creativity, and leadership will help students stand out.

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September 3, 2026

Why Portfolios Change the Trajectory for High Schoolers

Colleges still rank portfolios low, but the systems around them, holistic admissions and skills-based hiring, are shifting fast. Here's what the data actually shows, and doesn't.

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September 2, 2026

Gamified Learning: Why the Old Playbook Failed and What Actually Works

Points and badges are the shallow layer. The real driver of engagement is whether a challenge is real, whether students get genuine choice, and whether feedback is fast enough to matter. Here's what the research actually shows about gamified learning, and why the engagement gap it addresses is one of the more solvable problems in education right now.

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August 31, 2026

The Skills That Don't Expire

Technical skills are decaying faster than ever, while the human skills that transfer across every career get the least deliberate practice in a student's education. Here's why that gap exists, and why it matters more now than it used to.

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