My book, The Great Unlock, launches Monday, August 3rd. How AI Is Helping Make the Future of Learning More Human.

Most launch emails ask you to buy now. I'm asking you to hold off, if you can, until Monday, August 3rd.

Here's why. Amazon ranks books by sales rank, recalculated by the hour, based on when the sale happens, not when the book gets delivered. A pre-order placed today counts toward today's rank. A copy bought on launch day counts toward launch day's rank. Buying now doesn't stack anything for August 3rd. Buying then does.

So if you were going to get this book anyway, the single most useful thing you can do is buy it that specific day.

The book makes one argument: the K-12 system we're running was designed in the 1890s, for a world that needed reliable factory workers, not capable thinkers. Benjamin Bloom proved in 1984 that one-on-one, mastery-based tutoring produces outcomes in the top 2%, not top 20%. We've known this for 40 years. AI is the first tool that makes it possible at the scale of a public school district.

I wrote this after 14 years in a classroom and a decade building EdTech. It's the argument I couldn't stop making at dinner parties, finally put in one place.

Mark Monday. I'll send the link first thing in the morning.

Stay awesome you unlockers!

Karim