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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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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.

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How to Use YouTube to Learn Tacit Knowledge

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

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Copying Better: How To Acquire The Tacit Knowledge of Experts

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.

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Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice

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

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Get Numb Before You Get Good

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.

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To Get Good, Go After The Metagame

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