Playbooks
Showing Parents Real Practice Data, Not Just Time Logged
Want certified analytics of manual tracing time to show parents their child practiced? Time is a weak metric. Here is the data that actually proves progress.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Playbooks
GitHub Commits and Productivity APIs for Hanzi Tracking
Want to wire Hanzi practice into GitHub commits, exports, and productivity APIs? It is doable, but tracking tracing time is the wrong metric. Here is the honest take.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Essays
Traced Hanzi for 10,000 Hours? Check the Right Metric
Logging 10,000 hours of tracing feels like mastery, but hours of tracing is the wrong metric. Here is what a dashboard should actually track.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Research
Do Pressure Curves Affect Retention? The Honest Answer
Stylus pressure data is interesting telemetry, but it doesn't drive retention, and offloading memory to a device is the opposite of learning. Retention comes from retrieval, not from measuring strokes.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Research
Is Pen Speed a Useful Metric for Chinese Handwriting?
Writing speed is a result of fluency, not a target to chase. Optimizing a speed metric directly can wreck accuracy, and reading personality from speed is graphology. Here is what to measure instead.
Lawrence Arya··5 min