Eight real projects across four academies. You build a Skill, a web page, an agent design, and a system that keeps your own taste honest. AI is your co-builder the whole time — but the part only you can do is the part you do.
AI doesn't replace you — it amplifies whoever you already are. The same prompt becomes a different essay, a different agent, a different person, depending on which of these you've already grown.
If you have it, AI takes you deeper into the thing you already love. Without it, AI hands you the average version of every essay ever written.
Read on passion →If you have it, AI helps you build for one specific person. Without it, AI helps you broadcast to no one in particular.
Read on empathy →If you have it, AI's first draft is the start. Without it, AI's first draft is the end — and it's almost never any good.
Read on taste →Each academy has two projects you actually ship. The first one teaches the move; the second one makes it real. By the end of the second project, you have something a real person can use.
Turn a thing you obsess over into a Skill the family can actually use. Then make it better — fix what confused your friends.
Real HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Then add Claude as the brain — without an API key, just clean copy-paste workflow.
Pick a person. Watch them. Design what an agent would do for them — and what it should refuse to do, even when asked.
Define what "good" means in something you care about. Then catch yourself when you start letting AI do the parts that should be yours.
There are three Kindling sites — same essay, same three traits, three different difficulty levels. Match the one to your age and what you're ready for.
This whole site grew out of one essay by Prof. Weining Zhang. It's a ten-minute read. If it doesn't change your mind about something — close the tab.
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