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Lab · Beginner · 30 min
Lab: Hook test
Publish the same short clip with two different hooks and compare retention.
- You suspect your openings lose people in the first ten seconds, but you have never measured it. This lab tests one variable: the first line.
Tasks 3
Learning path · Beginner · 6h
Make content people finish
Hooks, structure, editing and repurposing for creators who want an audience that stays, with a weekly system that survives.
- Plan, script, record, edit and publish content on a sustainable weekly rhythm, with hooks and structure that hold attention and a repurposing system that multiplies each piece.
- Skills: Hooks and openings, Structure for retention, Recording and editing basics, Titles and thumbnails without clickbait, Repurposing and scheduling
Time 6h
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
3D workflow cheat sheet
The steps from primitive to export, and the rule for each. 4 sections, 15 entries.
- Model
- UV
- Material and light
Entries 15
Lab · Beginner · 30 min
Lab: Roughness only
Change nothing but roughness across six spheres and learn what it does to a render.
- Your renders look like plastic. The fix is usually roughness, not colour.
Tasks 3
Learning path · Beginner · 8h
3D from first model to render
Modelling, UVs, materials, lighting and rendering in Blender, learned by making one product visualisation properly.
- Model a clean object, unwrap and texture it, light and render it for a product image, and export it for the web or a game engine.
- Skills: Clean topology basics, UV unwrapping, PBR materials, Three-point and HDRI lighting, Rendering and export
Time 8h
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Minecraft creation cheat sheet
Builds, packs and plugins in one place. Check current platform docs for API specifics. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Builds
- Packs
- Plugins
Entries 16
Lab · Beginner · 30 min
Lab: Palette test wall
Test five palettes on the same wall in the same light and pick one with reasons.
- You keep changing blocks halfway through builds. Decide the palette before the build.
Tasks 3
Learning path · Beginner · 8h
Create for Minecraft: builds, packs and plugins
From a build that reads well to a resource pack and a first plugin, with the craft and the release habits that make content people install.
- Produce a themed build, a resource pack and a small plugin, each packaged so others can use them.
- Skills: Build composition and detailing, Resource pack structure, Plugin basics with a build tool, Commands, permissions and config, Packaging and publishing
Time 8h
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
FiveM resource essentials cheat sheet
Structure, security and performance rules for resources. Check current framework docs for exact function names. 4 sections, 15 entries.
- Structure
- Events
- Performance
Entries 15
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Store operations cheat sheet
Listings, delivery, support and retention on one screen. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Listings
- Delivery and policy
- Support
Entries 16
Lab · Beginner · 20 min
Lab: Dispute drill
Assemble a chargeback response for a delivered digital order in five minutes.
- A customer disputes a charge for a template they downloaded twice on the day of purchase.
Tasks 3
Learning path · Beginner · 5h
Run a store that keeps customers
Listings, delivery, support and retention for a small online store — the operations that turn a first order into a second.
- Operate a small store with listings that answer buyers, delivery and licensing that prevent disputes, support that resolves fast, and retention that is measured.
- Skills: Listings that answer objections, Delivery, returns and licensing policies, Support with policy snippets, Reviews as product feedback, Retention metrics
Time 5h
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Small business marketing cheat sheet
Message, channels, campaigns and measurement in one place. 4 sections, 14 entries.
- Message
- Channels
- Campaigns and email
Entries 14
Lab · Beginner · 40 min
Lab: Attribution audit
Check whether your analytics can actually attribute a conversion to a channel.
- The team believes social drives most trials. Nobody has checked the tagging.
Tasks 3
Learning path · Beginner · 6h
Marketing that can be measured
Positioning, channels, campaigns and measurement for a small business, built on one message and honest numbers.
- Run a measurable marketing programme for a small business: a positioning statement, two working channels, a campaign process and a monthly review.
- Skills: Positioning from the customer's alternative, Choosing channels by evidence, Running a campaign from a brief, Email that gets opened, Measurement with caveats
Time 6h
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Analysis checklist cheat sheet
The steps between a question and a defensible answer. 4 sections, 13 entries.
- Define
- Profile
- Compute
Entries 13
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Spreadsheet essentials cheat sheet
Structure, formulas and checks in one place. Syntax shown for Excel; Sheets is near-identical. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Structure
- Formulas
- Lookups
Entries 16
Lab · Beginner · 30 min
Lab: Find the broken formula
A workbook's totals are wrong; find the cause with the tools rather than by eye.
- A colleague's revenue summary is short by a few hundred, and they have been re-adding by hand.
Tasks 3
Project · Beginner · 5h
Project: An inventory workbook with reorder alerts
Build an inventory workbook with a products table, stock movements, reorder points, a dashboard and checks.
- Build a workbook with a products table (SKU, name, cost, reorder point, lead time), a movements table (date, SKU, quantity in or out), a stock-on-hand summary with SUMIFS, reorder alerts with conditional formatting, a pivot dashboard by category, validation on all inputs and a checks block.
- Milestone 1: Structure
- Milestone 2: Calculations
Learning path · Beginner · 5h
Spreadsheets that do not break
Structure, formulas, lookups, pivots and checks — learned by building the sheets a business actually needs.
- Build spreadsheets with clean structure, correct formulas, working lookups and built-in checks, in Excel or Google Sheets.
- Skills: Structuring data as tables, Core formulas and absolute references, Lookups and conditional aggregation, Pivot tables, Validation and error checks
Time 5h
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Business rhythms cheat sheet
What happens daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly in a well-run small business. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
Entries 16
Lab · Beginner · 45 min
Lab: Restore the backup
Prove that a backup can actually be restored, and time it.
- Your business has daily backups running. Nobody has ever restored one, so nobody knows whether they work.
Tasks 3
Learning path · Beginner · 6h
The systems a small business runs on
Money, customers, work and risk: set up each system once, on a rhythm, so the business runs without heroics.
- Set up bookkeeping, invoicing, a CRM, a task system and the risk basics for a small business, each on a weekly or monthly rhythm.
- Skills: Monthly close and cash view, Invoicing and collections, CRM and pipeline discipline, Task and document systems, Backups, access and compliance basics
Time 6h
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Interface design rules cheat sheet
Structure, hierarchy, states and words in one place. 4 sections, 17 entries.
- Structure
- Hierarchy
- States
Entries 17

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