Tom Rutten - Quantum Country interview - 2019-06-27

“Struggler” user

Synthesis and highlights

Tom is an unserious student; he read QCVC because he found the topic vaguely interesting. He struggled to an unusual degree with the review sessions (70% accuracy overall).

I failed these questions once or twice, and I can see that I should go back to the essay and read more about this, but I never bothered to open it and search for the right spot

Didn’t get much else out of him. Not our target audience.

Prep notes

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• Card quartiles: 1 / 2 / 3 / 3 / 4
• Read in two sessions
• Completed 8 review sessions
• Overall accuracy of 70%—unusually low
• Studied very consistently, but then suddenly stopped in early May

Raw notes

• Only had 15m because Tom was late
• Why read this?
  • Coworker referred it to him, was a CS person
  • Was also curious about the pedagogical side
  • Pretty vague goals
• “Once I started reading it, I could hardly stop.”
• “I thought the exercises were great.”
• “I really like the intention around the flashcards”
  • The emails were always at the bottom of his priority list
  • The reminders might have come when it wasn’t ideal in the moment
• Other habits in your life
  • Restructures notes, synthesizes weekly
• On struggling:
  • “OK, I failed these questions once or twice, and I can see that I should go back to the essay and read more about this, but I never bothered to open it and search for the right spot.”
• Pretty fundamentally unserious about his own learning.