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Of course! Gamification (and other extrinsic motivators) are best used sparingly and short-term in order to get over an initial hump before something fun or easy. Think of climbing…

Hi - Mentava founder here (we make gamified early literacy software). Obviously I believe in the value of gamification, though I think it's difficult to do correctly. There's certa…

Hi, Mentava founder here. Almost all of our investors are in AngelList RUVs so there's zero overhead Some of our most helpful investors only put in $1000 and the RUV made it easy t…

Great post! At this moment, I'm passionate about childhood education. There are plenty of challenges in education to be tackled, but the one that I feel needs more attention and is…

Mentava | Founding engineer | REMOTE-FIRST north american timezones Mentava is building software to support independent, accelerated K12 learning. We’re backed by Quiet, Floodgate,…

Mentava | Founding Engineer, Founding Art Director | Remote | $100k-$200k base | 1%-5% equity Mentava is building software to support accelerated K12 learning. With gifted programs…

The author (as she admits herself) is in a pretty good situation - she has a very meaningful amount of stock options, a respectable salary, and she enjoys her job. Consider how muc…

I just happened to find this 2017 article about fungi growing on the exterior of the space station. I wouldn't be surprised if extremophile fungi turn out to be widespread in space…