On the TechVancouver stage ×1
First seen on the TechVancouver stage in 2016. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about John ↗
In their words
Dayboard started as a project for me to learn how to program, and it ended up being our core business.
The third phase is recall — where you actively draw upon the information you took in earlier and repeat it in some way. This is the phase where learning happens.
My favorite way of explaining what explaining is: it's when you're drawing connections to things that people already understand.
Quick answers
Who is John Chan?
Founder of 2x Conversion Design, a Vancouver growth and design consultancy. A self-taught programmer and UBC dropout, he was a head instructor at Lighthouse Labs and earlier co-founded the productivity app Dayboard.
What did John Chan talk about at TechTO / TechVancouver?
In June 2016 he gave a crash course on learning theory: memory works in perceive, encode and recall phases, and real learning happens at recall. He suggested repeating back a person's product pitch to test whether you actually understood it.
What was Dayboard?
A browser new-tab extension Chan co-founded in 2014 that showed users their five most important tasks each day. It reached roughly 19,000 users before being discontinued in 2021.