Startup With Shashank
An empty seat on a dark velvet sofa.

The format

Somebody has to sit
in the other chair.

Every course you have ever bought was written before it was delivered. This one was not written at all.

The problem with a lecture

This is not a course. It is a recording of someone being asked.

Somebody decides what you need to know, writes it down, and reads it at you. Every awkward part gets removed in the draft, because the draft is where the teacher gets comfortable. That is not the same thing as you getting better.

A Coursecast is the opposite. He sat down and got asked. When the answer was vague he got asked again. What survived is what he actually believes, including the parts where the popular advice is wrong.

You hear him think. You hear him correct himself. You hear the caveat that a script would have sanded off — and the caveat is usually the part you needed.

What people ask first

Why not just record a normal course?

Because a lecture gets written before it gets delivered. Somebody decides what you need to know, writes it down, and reads it at you. Every awkward part gets removed in the draft. That is the teacher getting comfortable. It is not you getting better.

So what is different here?

I did not write it. I sat down and got asked. When my answer was vague, I got asked again. What survived is what I actually believe, including the parts where the popular advice is wrong.

Will I actually finish it?

It plays like a podcast, because it is one. Eight-minute pieces on a phone, on a commute, without a desk. You do not need to sit down to learn this. You need to keep going.

I am not going to give you any frameworks. Any gimmickry frameworks.

When did a course last ask you anything?

This one does, out loud, in every module.

The mechanic

Every module ends with a Shameless Rep.

Hands clasped, resting.

One specific public action, in if-then form, done inside forty-eight hours. Not a worksheet. Not a quiz. Something that costs you a small, survivable amount of embarrassment on purpose.

It is the only part that changes anything. You can watch every module and do none of the reps, and nothing in your life will be different. Agree?

For example

If you are at an event this month, then talk to two people before you go anywhere near the food.

The drops

One at a time.

Coursecast — three panels with the word COURSECAST across them.

Drop 01 · out now

Communication Skills

Eight modules on the thing that decides how far you get, and it is not your English. ₹499.

See Drop 01 →

Drop 02

Not announced.

What gets recorded next depends partly on what people ask for after this one.