Dakshay Mehta

Founder and engineer building AI-powered products and writing about AI, startups, learning, and product thinking.

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·6d ago·
StartupsLearn

Education Should be like a video game

Most schooling still runs on a 200-year-old factory model: lectures, batches, and delayed grades. Great games teach the opposite—learn by doing, instant feedback, adaptive difficulty, intrinsic motivation, and safe failure. The future of education is designing learning to feel like that, not just digitizing the old system.

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·1w ago·
CuriousityLearn

The School That Never Closes

Most people treat failure like something to hide. This piece reframes every setback as tuition, and shows how visible failure plus reflection turns experience into compounding wisdom.

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·2w ago·
NotesAI

We're Still Early: AI, Education, and the Biggest Opportunity Everyone Is Overlooking: my thesis - Updated as of March 4th 2026

AI adoption is exploding, but we are still early. The biggest unlocked market is education, and the real challenge is using AI to make humans learn better instead of shortcutting the process.

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