Cedric Chin

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Have you ever tried putting deliberate practice to practice? If you have, it's likely that you'll have noticed just how difficult it is to apply deliberate practice principles to your career. Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying; here's why.

Last week we covered a model for expertise called recognition-primed decision making. This week, we talk about how to use that model to build expertise of your own.

Experts make decisions in ways that are very, very different from conventional decision science models. This makes expertise a lot more important to good decision making than you might think.

Instrumental rationality is the sort of thinking that allows you to achieve your goals. We take a closer look at what decision science says is the 'best' way to pursue this purpose.

Any discussion of practicing mental models must begin with a discussion of rationality. We look at what the research tells us about it.

There has been an uptick in self-help books and blogs about mental models. But, there's a problem when putting it in practice.

Introducing the perceptual exposure playlist — a first attempt at putting perceptual learning to practice.

Perceptual exposure is the rare learning technique that allows you to learn tacit knowledge — that is, knowledge that can't be communicated. And it begins with a simple question: how do you tell if a chick is male or female?

Ken Kocienda's book is about how Apple builds software in the time of Steve Jobs. Highly recommended, especially if you're a software engineer.