Engineering student. I build the tools and courses I wish I'd had.
I'm figuring out how to learn hard things fast, and packaging what works into things other people can use. Right now that's a Calculus prep course and a second-brain system that runs my studying for me.
Everything here started as a problem I had and couldn't find a good answer to, so I built one.
A prep course that makes Calculus I click before it starts. It drills the algebra and trig underneath calculus to reflex. Free preview; $5 for the full 33-lesson workbook.
Get it at store.ryanross.org →My personal operating system. A second brain that plans my study blocks against a real calendar, guards my habits, and turns everything I read into a knowledge base that compounds. It runs privately on my own hardware.
Private, but I write about how it worksA companion that walks any problem in the course with you. Hints when you're stuck, checks your work, catches the slips. In the works.
Coming soonI share what I'm learning about studying, building, and shipping as I go. New projects land here first.
Email me belowI'm a college student heading into computer engineering, and mostly I'm obsessed with the meta-skill: how to actually learn difficult material and not lose it. I got tired of advice that didn't survive contact with a real semester, so I started building systems and courses that do, starting with the calculus prep I wished someone had handed me.
This site is a work in progress, same as everything else here.