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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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Actually Effective Corporate Leadership Training

It’s quite rare to find an executive training program that’s very effective — one that has worked across multiple companies, and has spat out a whole host of CEOs. The Kraft system is one.

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Our First Accelerated Expertise Course

A first attempt at putting the two theories of Accelerated Expertise (2016) to practice — in a live course, with real students. A field report from use.

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What We Learnt From Speedrunning the Idea Maze

Our attempt at applying two theories of accelerated expertise to the first cohort of Speedrunning the Idea Maze.

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Stop Worrying About Survivorship Bias With This One Weird Trick

Why successful investors and businesspeople tell you to learn from business history — and what they do so survivorship bias isn’t a problem.

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Letter to a Young Person Worrying About AI

It is a common misperception that you must be able to predict the future to do well. But it’s possible to act without prediction, even in the face of AI. This is how.

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Tacit Expertise Extraction, Software Engineering Edition

One software engineer's story of extracting expertise from the heads of 'a tiger team of senior software engineers'. Useful to anyone who might want to accelerate their own skills.

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One Definition of Wisdom

Charlie Munger’s biggest business mistake, and what it tells us about wisdom.

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Mental Strength in Judo, Mental Strength in Life

Results of a four month accelerated expertise experiment in Judo. Or: "I expected to learn about deliberate practice but instead learnt a ton about my mental shortcomings."

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Creating New Drills for Deliberate Practice

A lesson from a four month accelerated expertise experiment. Or: why creating new drills for a deliberate practice training program isn't as difficult as you might think.

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An Expertise Acceleration Experiment in Judo

I relocated for a three month expertise acceleration experiment in Judo. These are my notes from two months in: what I learnt, what was hard, and what deliberate practice actually feels like.