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by nick007 2518 days ago
DISCLAIMER - I am a customer.

I found Capsule very valuable. The content is 2nd to none, they boil down some huge concepts that span thousands of pages across multiple books/papers into dense and digestible bites of material. Very high bandwidth and efficient.

I see a lot of commentary about the price being high. I'm not sure whether they have the right price point or not, but what I would say as someone who considers myself pretty frugal, I would compare the value I got from Capsule to a series of books and probably therapists that would've cost hundreds or thousands of dollars (and many more hours).

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What is it like inside? Is it videos, content pages or some soft of interactive tutorials?
No videos, it's written content with questions to answer/reflect on.

There's also a way to write in to a real-life person/team with follow-on thoughts/questions after each section. I've done this a number of times not really expecting much, but have been blown away with how fast and thoughtful a response I've always gotten. Almost feels like you're getting personal coach (which they are really underselling IMHO).

How many weeks did you end up using Capsule for?
I finished all the Missions in a few weeks, forget exactly the days. It could definitely be done faster but I spaced out one Mission every few days (I think there are 8 or 9 of them).