What's it about? Good Writing (2026) is a practical guide to making sentences clearer, sharper, and more memorable, using rules that apply to everything from essays and blog posts to speeches and scripts. It aims to pick up where traditional style guides leave off, helping writers turn competent prose into language that feels vivid, persuasive, and alive. Why do some sentences stay with you while others slide past without leaving much behind? Why does one email, article, or speech sound clear and confident, while another feels stiff, cluttered, or oddly forgettable? Most of the difference comes down to choices made at the sentence level. Tiny decisions about verbs, rhythm, tone – all of these shape whether your writing feels human or forced, precise or vague. Once you start noticing those choices, you have a real lever for improving almost anything you write, whether you are working on a story, a presentation, or a difficult message you need to get right. That’s where this lesson...

What's it about? Every Brain Needs Music (2023) combines neuroscience research with music pedagogy to reveal how brains and music work together. The work demonstrates how musical activities activate the nervous system's cognitive, sensory, and motor functions while reshaping neural architecture. What happens inside your brain when you hear music? More than you might think. Listening activates sensory, motor, emotional, and cognitive networks simultaneously. Creating music from scratch requires complex collaboration between imagination, planning, and memory. And practicing an instrument rewires neural pathways, and changes the relationship between body and mind. Musical performance integrates all these systems under pressure, coordinating sensation, movement, and emotion in real time. Each mode of musical engagement leaves lasting changes in brain structure and connectivity. This lesson dives deep into how music shapes human neurology into a symphony of extraordinary abi...

What's it about? It’s Complicated (2014) reveals that teenage social media use is far more sophisticated than adults assume, with young people developing complex strategies to manage identity, privacy, and social relationships in networked spaces where all their audiences collapse together. The real dangers aren't the ones dominating headlines – predators, addiction, cyberbullying – but rather how adult panic and protectionism prevent teenagers from developing the skills they need to navigate digital life thoughtfully and safely. For many parents and carers, their teen’s social media habits are equal parts mysterious and frustrating. What are they looking at online all day? What effect is it having on their brain? And why can’t they just log off? The answers to those questions may be surprising. While teens certainly need to be supported in healthy social media habits, their online lives are actually pretty fascinating. See, teenagers have figured out something adults still ...

What's it about? The Laws of Thought (2026) is a deep dive into the world of cognitive science – the quest to understand the laws that govern our minds. It gives a broad and detailed account of the history of the discipline, starting with the foundations of formal logic before moving through behaviorism, early computational theories, semantic research, artificial neural networks, and finally probability theory. By offering insights into three main approaches to understanding the mind, it offers an intricate picture of the Laws of Thought. Some 300 years ago, a small group of prominent thinkers set out to uncover the laws that governed the world around them. Newton, Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz – they were all on a quest for the Laws of Nature, a way of applying mathematical theories to ascertain how things work. Fast forward to today and laws that govern our world – from gravity to acceleration – are taught in every physics classroom around the world. But what about the world ins...

What's it about? Change Your Game (2026) is a story-driven guide for teens and young adults, which makes the case that leadership isn’t something to grow into someday – it’s something you can practice right now, no title or permission required. Drawing on real-world examples, it helps you build the confidence, empathy, and self-awareness to positively influence the people around you. The world has a leadership crisis, but not the kind you think. We don’t lack leaders – we lack leaders worth following. Pick up any newspaper and you’ll find politicians driven by greed, executives blinded by quarterly profits, and influencers peddling hollow values. The previous generation handed us a world scarred by their choices, and now they offer advice from the same playbook that created the mess. Here’s what they won’t tell you: the best people to lead young people aren’t weathered executives or seasoned politicians. They’re you. Right now, there are 1. 8 billion people aged 10–24 on this pla...

What's it about? Prompt Engineering for Generative AI (2024) is a comprehensive guide to working effectively with text and image generating AI. It highlights five key principles that form the backbone of effective prompts for large language models like ChatGPT and diffusion models like Stable Diffusion. It explores the computational mechanisms behind these models, and gives a host of practical tips and ideas for improving your AI workflow. Generative AI models are making leaps and bounds on an almost daily basis. The pace is so relentless it’s hard to keep up. But keep up we must, for one thing is certain: AI is here to stay. As it evolves, industries evolve with it, and it’s certain to infiltrate more and more lines of work in years to come. That being said, AI isn’t a mind reader – or perhaps, not yet. It won’t always give you what you were expecting. In fact, it will often make things up with the utmost confidence – a phenomenon referred to as hallucination. The quality ...