#2631 - Failure Friday: Lost in the Code of Education
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we bring you the story of "EduAI," an AI-driven tutoring platform whose technological complexity led to its downfall, underscoring the balance between innovation and usability in EdTech.
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| 0:00.0 | So it's David's first week. Welcome David. Actually to kick things off David, maybe you can let us know your thoughts on the productivity portfolio flips around the spending dilip. |
| 0:10.0 | Okay, sorry? Give us your initial POV on the productivity portfolio Moo-Moo-M make much more with a feather this morning? |
| 0:17.5 | Oh, that, yeah, the uh... |
| 0:20.5 | Does industry talk make zero sense to you? |
| 0:22.8 | Find collaborative articles with tips from the LinkedIn community to help you navigate those awkward moments. |
| 0:27.8 | Making work makes sense? |
| 0:29.1 | LinkedIn knows how. Friends, it is the Ides of March, at least today's episode going out in real time, the Ides of March, 15th of March, the middle of the month. |
| 0:47.0 | Watch your back. |
| 0:48.0 | Hey, watch your back. If you happen to be listening to this later, I hope everything was okay. |
| 0:52.0 | Episode 2,631 we're just going to keep |
| 0:55.8 | rolling because we've been around for the eyes of March I think seven times and you |
| 0:59.9 | know still standing here so let's just jump in this is Sidissel School. I'm Chris Gillibow. Today is a failure Friday |
| 1:06.2 | episode, perhaps appropriate for such a date. We're going to talk about being lost in the code of education. |
| 1:16.8 | In this week's segment, we'll bring you the story of Eduai, EDU AI, I guess I should say it that way, EDU AI. An AI-driven tutorial, this is part of the problem, |
| 1:22.4 | right? |
| 1:23.0 | The why did the business fail? |
| 1:24.1 | Because you couldn't figure out how to pronounce the name. |
| 1:26.0 | Okay, I'll just keep going here. |
| 1:28.1 | An AI-driven tutoring platform whose technological complexity |
| 1:31.7 | led to its downfall, |
| 1:32.8 | also the name, underscoring the balance between innovation and usability. |
| 1:37.5 | We like to share these stories of difficulties, mistakes, missteps, disasters, |
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