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Starting a revolution in the textbook industry

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103 from 19 Dec 2011 to 5 Sep 2026
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2026 2

  1. Making hypothesis testing make sense
  2. The calculus tutorial just shipped!

2025 2

  1. No Bullshit Guide to Statistics prerelease
  2. Sales pitch about why you should learn statistics

2024 1

  1. Additional linear algebra book recommendations

2023 1

  1. Python coding skills for statistic

2021 5

  1. What stats do people want to learn?
  2. Learning loops
  3. No Bullshit Guide to Statistics progress update
  4. Fixing the introductory statistics curriculum
  5. Generating ePub from LaTeX

2020 3

  1. No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra v2.2 update
  2. No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics v5.4 update
  3. Multilingual authoring for the win

2018 1

  1. January Optimism about OER

2017 6

  1. Impression from NYC and the RC
  2. No bullshit linear algebra v2 release
  3. The textbook business
  4. The state of open educational resources in 2017
  5. Linear algebra final push
  6. Improving the math chapter

2016 11

  1. Math for lawyers
  2. Linear algebra problem sets progress
  3. Linear algebra v2 beta release
  4. No BS math and physics v5.1 update
  5. The aims of education according to Alfred North Whitehead
  6. Learning can be fun
  7. No bullshit guide to programming
  8. Annual general update
  9. Git for authors
  10. I’m still a beginner
  11. Linear algebra book alpha release

2015 6

  1. Impressions from NIPS 2015
  2. Progress on linear algebra
  3. The school of the future
  4. Books as tools for scaling knowledge
  5. Digital vs. print and the future of books
  6. Internet propaganda

2014 22

  1. Books vs Apps
  2. Survive the exams special
  3. Book pricing for optimal growth
  4. Binary search in three languages
  5. Student workload
  6. Scaling sales, a quantitative appoach
  7. Linear algebra applications
  8. Math makes you cry? Try SymPy!
  9. Stickers
  10. Marketing problem
  11. Linear algebra concept maps
  12. Filing taxes for self-employed business income in Québec
  13. An inspired tweet
  14. Dwarslezer
  15. The economics of writing books people want
  16. Problem sets ready
  17. Ghetto CRM
  18. A nice question for coding interviews
  19. Getting started with ML in python
  20. No bullshit guide to linear algebra
  21. Opportunity costs
  22. Thoughts and strategy for scaling distribution

2013 17

  1. A scriptable future for the Web and home servers
  2. Fairly successful HN post of the linear algebra tutorial
  3. Linear algebra tutorial in four pages
  4. Open book writing and typo workflow
  5. One day of advertising on facebook
  6. The not-so-successful launch of v4.0
  7. Pricing
  8. October launch
  9. Linear algebra flyer
  10. Discipline
  11. Exams suck
  12. Starting a company in Quebec
  13. Network protocols discussion
  14. Techzing interview
  15. Big data and R
  16. Hacker news launch
  17. New landing page

2012 22

  1. The web we still have
  2. Strang lectures on linear algebra
  3. Target revenue
  4. Product shot with GIMP
  5. Showing off with python
  6. Available on lulu.com
  7. December launch
  8. Abstract
  9. Starting a revolution
  10. December launch
  11. Mechanics explained in seven pages
  12. September launch?
  13. First day of classes
  14. Cory Doctorow on writing for a living
  15. Reading analytics for eBooks
  16. Realism
  17. How to learn PHYSICS from the web
  18. Math problems solved on computers
  19. Summer progress
  20. Writing documentation
  21. Measuring readability
  22. Chapter order

2011 4

  1. Tools
  2. FIX MY BACK
  3. Moving into blog
  4. Yey. WP installed.