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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.
Believability is a criterion for evaluating practical advice, originally articulated by Ray Dalio in his 2017 book Principles. These are some notes from practice.
How every post about expertise and expertise acquisition on this blog fits together. Also a few things I'm currently investigating.
Much of life is about learning from experience. Not in class. Not mentorship. Not deliberate practice. And so the question: how do you learn better when it comes to learning from trial and error?
Some implications of using the triad mental model of business as a North Star for learning. Part of a series on business expertise.
A few weeks ago, I helped Amplitude head of product education John Cutler extract tacit expertise around diagnosing and improving product organisations. Here's how that went.
All great business people share a common, intuitive mental model of business. We look at how researcher Lia DiBello extracted that mental model.
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.
We take a look at how you might turn extracted, tacit expertise into a training program for yourself or others.
How to pick tree books and branch books, demonstrated using an example of a reading program I developed for B2B sales.
A look at Laura Militello and Robert Hutton's Applied Cognitive Task Analysis, a simplified method for getting at the tacit expertise of others.