Niels Hoven
nielshoven.bsky.social
Niels Hoven
@nielshoven.bsky.social
Founded Mentava to teach reading in preschool and calculus in middle school. Help me bring back excellence in education. Father of 4.
Hi JD! I’m looking forward to the nuanced policy discussions that your presence here will inspire 👋
June 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Yeah, that’s why we made Mentava. But software is a lot harder to make and maintain than a book is, so we have to charge for the software
February 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Hmm I’m so sorry. We’ve had occasional outages in the past, were you able to get it to work?
January 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I wish there were a way for us to play the audio on each page but it would be so expensive
January 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
the brief utopian period before Eternal September
November 19, 2024 at 6:38 AM
Interesting. This makes sense if you believe there are weaker (solo) engineers who will outperform stronger (solo) engineers when both engineers have access to AI
November 19, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Amazon link is here (a.co/d/3KexYS9), or go to www.mentava.com to download a free pdf version.

It's 149 pages, be prepared 😀
November 19, 2024 at 6:11 AM
To tell if a child is developmentally ready to begin reading, we use emojis to see if they can understand left-to-right reading order.

If they can't tell the difference between 🐶🐟 (dogfish) and 🐟🐶 (fishdog), then they won't be able to understand the difference between "am" and "ma"

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November 19, 2024 at 6:11 AM