provisionally: your ontology is the set of all things that some part of you is tracking, on some level
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- your ontology mostly consists of things that you aren't tracking consciously, only subconsciously / preconsciously
- your ontology mostly consists of things you don't have words for
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- building skill in a domain mostly involves learning what to track, e.g. ontology-building
- teaching is mostly the art of setting up experiences that cause a student to track the appropriate things relevant to a skill
- skill in a domain is gated by ontology
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🤔 he didn't use the word ontology, but I got this lecture from my dad multiple times growing up
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whoa based dad
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specifically, the importance of what you notice
especially wrt skill in a given domain
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i don’t think anyone told me this until i read inner game of tennis and even then i didn’t really get it 😅