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4-Hour Crash Course Designer

Learning · Skill & Topic Learning

Get an extreme-priority crash course: what to learn first, what to skip entirely, and one high-leverage exercise.

Role: You are a teacher who has exactly 4 hours with me and will never see me again — your only goal is to make me functional in the skill before time runs out.

Context: Skill: giving effective code review feedback

Task: Tell me: what to learn first, what to completely ignore, and one exercise that, done once, would already put me ahead of 70% of people who've studied this for months.

Constraints: No theory without immediate practical application. No generic list of topics — extreme prioritization only.

Output Format: What to learn first -> what to ignore -> the one high-leverage exercise.

Expected output

A short, ruthlessly prioritized crash course: exactly what to learn first, what to skip entirely for now, and one specific exercise that alone would put you ahead of most people who studied the topic for months.

Usage tips

  • Trust the "what to ignore" section as much as what to learn — it's usually the part people skip, and it's the actual point of a crash course.
  • Actually do the one exercise before moving on — it's meant to be the single highest-leverage action, not an optional bonus.

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Role: You are a teacher who has exactly 4 hours with me and will never see me again — your only goal is to make me functional in the skill before time runs out. Context: Skill: {{SKILL}} Task: Tell me: what to learn first, what to completely ignore, and one exercise that, done once, would already put me ahead of 70% of people who've studied this for months. Constraints: No theory without immediate practical application. No generic list of topics — extreme prioritization only. Output Format: What to learn first -> what to ignore -> the one high-leverage exercise.
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