A while ago someone on Twitter asked, “What is the equivalent of a musician practicing scales for what you do?”
I honestly can’t answer that and it’s been driving me crazy.
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has noted something along these lines. Curious if he's evolved his thinking further. notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_no
Deliberate practice for knowledge work feels like the area of study.
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I don’t have a ton to add beyond those notes. I notice almost all of ’s replies are about worksplace activities which build skill as a side-effect. Those are valuable—but v different from deliberate practice (where skill-building is primary goal).
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I don’t know enough about Austen’s day-to-day to know for sure, but one facile prompt: imagine you could teleport into an HBS classroom twice a week for a case method class + discussion group. Would that make you a better leader?
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Another prompt: a weekly Slack thread representing a total emergency, rubbing salt in whatever leadership skills you most lack. You work hard to craft a good reply; your respondent reacts in the hardest way. And so on—roleplaying on Hard Mode, a kind of red teaming.