Learning Techniques

How do you actually get good in messy, real world domains? This tag covers practice, pedagogy design, theories of expert cognition, and the very cutting edge of expertise research.

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An Extracted Tacit Mental Model of Business Expertise

All great business people share a common, intuitive mental model of business. We look at how researcher Lia DiBello extracted that mental model.

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An MBA for Business Operators

A look at two syllabuses for learning the art of business, why they're rare, and why to take notice when a practitioner mentions one.

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The Tricky Thing About Creating Training Programs

We take a look at how you might turn extracted, tacit expertise into a training program for yourself or others.

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A Land & Expand Reading Program for B2B Sales

How to pick tree books and branch books, demonstrated using an example of a reading program I developed for B2B sales.

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An Easier Method for Extracting Tacit Knowledge

A look at Laura Militello and Robert Hutton's Applied Cognitive Task Analysis, a simplified method for getting at the tacit expertise of others.

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An Update on ‘Consume What You Can Do’

If you can only put two ideas to practice a week, then you're inevitably going to have to deal with a bottleneck of 'to-experiment' ideas.

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Reading Quickly is Reading a Lot

Why the best way to get a reading speedup is to read a lot about some specific topic.

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Neuroplasticity is a Pretty Useless Idea for Practice

Neuroplasticity is an oft-quoted scientific idea, used to explain skill acquisition. But it's not actually that useful to the practitioner. Here's why.

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How I Do Personal Experiments

How to take ideas from books and blog posts and turn them into effective personal experiments.

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Consume What You Can Do

When reading actionable content, it might be a good idea to read only what you can put to the test.