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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3451 - Q&A: “’Spaced repetition’ practice with overseas tutors?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Small Business, Business, Side Hustle

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today’s listener has an intriguing idea: to aid in memory retention using spaced repetition but with outsourced tutors from other countries. Think of it like “Upwork meets Udemy.” Will it work?


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0:00.0

Well, a few days ago, we talked about pharmacy cards, basically a side hustler who had this idea

0:13.5

of creating pharmacy cards.

0:15.7

In fact, they'd already made this product to help pharmacy students memorize drug names and so on.

0:20.2

And so we talked about how they can get a little bit closer to reaching their ideal customer.

0:24.8

Today's listener has an intriguing idea.

0:27.8

They want to help memory retention.

0:30.1

So basically anybody who needs to memorize stuff with this tool or this, I guess it's more of a skill called spaced repetition.

0:37.1

It is a tactic. It's something

0:38.8

you can apply when you're trying to learn different information and have it actually retain

0:43.4

in your mind. You know, a lot of us learn things and then we forget them later. So spaced

0:47.7

repetition helps you reinforce the learning that you've acquired. So their specific ideas is to use

0:53.0

outsourced tutors from other countries. You can think of it as

0:57.2

Upwork meets Udeme. So Upwork is a service or a platform where you can connect with different skill providers,

1:04.0

vendors, designers, developers, and so on. Udeme is a course platform where you can learn anything.

1:10.2

So Upwork meets Udeme, let's talk about it.

1:13.9

Is this a good idea or maybe not just is it a good idea, but what do they need to do next?

1:18.7

How can they create what they call a working model?

1:22.0

So love the framing of this question.

1:24.7

I'm going to pass it to our listener in a moment right after this quick shout out to our sponsor. Hi, Chris. This is Kim from Tampa and I've been listening

1:42.9

to the show for a couple of years. I'm not sure if you're

1:46.6

aware of this, but if you want to learn something, space repetition is the most single important

1:52.6

habit you can use. It's essentially the flashcard technique where you review a series of items

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