Learning Techniques

YouTube is the biggest thing to have happened to tacit skill acquisition in the past couple of decades. Here's how to use it.

Much of expertise is tacit: that is, it cannot be captured through words alone. We look at techniques, drawn from the field of Naturalistic Decision Making, designed to acquire the tacit knowledge of experts.

What tacit knowledge is, and why it is the most interesting topic in the study of expertise today.

You can't pursue expertise if you're scared of starting. Why it's better to get numb first before you focus on getting good.

What do metagames have to do with the acquisition of expertise?

I find it a little difficult to believe that expertise is 'merely' pattern-matching. And yet it seems to have resulted in the some of my best learning outcomes over the past year. A look at my scepticism, in the context of several ideas we've covered in this blog.

A summary of everything a practitioner needs to know about memory retention when learning, in the pursuit of building career moats.

In which we examine a logical extension of the idea that humans are built to learn from stories. If we're so attuned to stories, can we use this to acquire better career skills, and at a faster pace?

Perceptual exposure is a learning technique that uses the brain's ability to pattern match against deep perceptual cues.

I tried reading a book a week last year. Here's what I learnt, what I found surprising, and what I'm taking forwards.