The Mountain Pass

Kevon Cheung runs his business in public, including monthly updates & numbers. Building in Public is a relatively new movement where builders share their progress, thoughts and learnings in public. Kevon is the founder of Public Lab and has literally written a playbook on this and runs his business in public, even sharing his monthly numbers on Twitter.

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Today I'm sharing an interview with Maya Dolgin the founder of BraverMe. I sat down a while ago with Maya to discuss her founding journey and what it took to make the brave step of leaving a tried-and-true career path to venture off on the entrepreneurial journey. We discussed what made her take the leap, her learnings and what it takes to become a Braver - Me.

This conversation was in the context of Maya’s course on Alpe Audio: Career Courage. A course that deals with how to take those critical steps in your career and find the inner courage to do so. Enjoy.

Contact BraverMe: https://www.braverme.today/

Connect with Maya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maya-dolgin-mba-acc/

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Alex Oppenheimer is the Founder at Verissimo Ventures, an early stage venture fund. Alex has been involved in the financial world since he traded stocks in the 90s as a pre-teen and was part of the team that took Facebook public at Morgan Stanley.

I wanted to chat with Alex about his learning journey in investing - the lessons he’s learned along the way, what a degree in mechanical engineering has to do with investing and what his thoughts are in general about learning experiences - what matters and what doesn’t. Alex has spent a good chunk of time in completely different learning environments - whether internships, summer jobs, college or Yeshiva - which I’ll call a form of higher education for Jewish religious studies - and in retrospect that has formed his opinion on his previous experiences. Enjoy

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Today I’m talking to Martine Ellis, host of the teaching space podcast and a Continuous Professional Development manager and scholarly lead and program lead for teacher and assessor education at the Guernsey College of education. We connected over Twitter a while ago and I’ve been super impressed with the thoughts and threads she publishes on productivity, wellbeing and tools for  thought.

I wanted to discuss her learning and teaching journey on social media and how she thinks about these newer formats for courses, especially in light of her formal teaching background.

Martine publishes her thoughts on her website: https://www.martineellis.com/ and her newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/martine

You can find Martine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartineGuernsey

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Prof William Kolbrener, is an English professor at Bar Ilan University, who’s published books on Milton and Soloveitchik among others. We recently worked on his Alpe course - Shakespeare and the modern individual which opened my eyes to the world of teaching literature. 

I wanted to talk to Bill about what it’s like teaching Shakespeare and that led us down a fascinating conversation on the divine, what makes great works of art and his framework for teaching which I loved. as well as the importance of teaching the humanities.

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Dr. Maria Blekher. is the founding director of the innovation lab and a Clinical Associate Professor at the Sy Syms School of Business, Yeshiva University

I wanted to interview Maria because the topic she teaches - an innovation lab and applied market research are topics that are exactly at the intersection of practical and theoretical.

The topic of teaching students at universities these skills, and the challenge of teaching theoretical knowledge in a way that can be applied is something that I’m incredibly interested in and her experience can shed a fresh perspective on what works and what doesn’t.

From here to there we discussed why market research is so important but easy to get wrong and the difference between Israeli and American university students.

Dr. Blekher's 'Go to' resources for market research:

1) Applied Market Research on Alpe Audio

2) The Right It: Why so many ideas fail and how to make sure yours succeeds

3) The Mom test 

4) The Mom Test book club on Alpe Audio

We also mentioned this discussion I had with Dr. Luke Hobson: Primer on Instructional Design with Dr. Luke Hobson

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Helen is an executive communications coach at Loud and Clear training and a consultant and lecturer. I’ve wanted to interview Helen for a while actually simply because I’ve seen her work her magic ‘live’. 

In our conversation you'll learn and hear about:

I had a great time chatting with Helen and hope you enjoy it as well! You can get in touch with Helen at [email protected] or on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-gottstein-loudandclear/

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Dr. Luke Hobson is a Senior Instructional Designer and Program Manager at MIT and the host of the aptly named Dr. Luke Hobson Podcast where he interviews leaders in the instructional design space.

As I’ve explored the instructional design world over the past few years for designing our own courses at Alpe I’ve become increasingly aware of this world that’s more and more - all around us, and I wanted to get someone on to explain this world and what it is and Dr. Luke is perfect for that.

You can find all of Dr. Luke's materials at his website: https://drlukehobson.com/

There are many resources Dr. Luke mentioned:

Dr. Richard West: https://edtechbooks.org/lidtfoundations

Julie Dirksen: Designing for how people learn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0BRVg3mHk4

Tim Slade: The e-learning designers handbook: https://timslade.com/

Devlin Peck's tutorials: https://www.devlinpeck.com/

Welcome to the Mountain Pass 🏔!

I’m Yehoshua, co founder of Alpe Audio, an audio education platform. I’ve been exploring education for the past few years as we’ve been building Alpe. but the mountain pass isn’t about Alpe the company, it’s about our learning journey. It’s an exploration of teaching, learning and curiosity.

The learning landscape is immense and through interviews with lifelong learners I want to explore this landscape. Whether they’re instructors, builders or writers we’re all on a lifelong learning journey. In each episode I’ll be exploring one of those themes, and I’m delighted to share that with you.

Welcome to the Mountain Pass 🏔.

Feel free to get in touch! 

Twitter: @yehoshzl

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yehoshua-zlotogorski-b1490987/

Email: [email protected]

Today I'm talking to Atin Batra, GP at 27 Ventures, a VC firm investing in the future of work and educational technologies. I wanted to talk to Atin because of his journey from entrepreneurship into venture capital and within the VC world - what it's like being a solo GP, how he runs his firm, deep learning vs broad learning and how he manages his time.

You can connect with Atin on Twitter @batraatin

Atin's website: https://27v.vc/

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