It seems people on HN have discovered commoncog.com/blog/the-menta; I think they would do better if they read
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Roughly speaking, the people who read this are divided into those who think expertise is tacit, and those who think expertise is 100% explicitly expressible.
I grin when I read opinions from the latter. All the better for the former group to compete with.
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I must’ve read this b4 cause I’m a fan. But reading this for the 2nd (or more?) time, I’ve a new mental representation didn’t have b4
Sometimes read other people explicit models, we have a 💡but other times we don’t
My wild suggestion is it’s a bit like magnetizing iron /1
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Magnetizing iron requires stroking rod several times to get the internal arrows aligned
When an explicit model takes hold on a person, the person has almost all the internal arrows aligned just b4 reading it. The model was simply the last “stroke” to make it all aligned
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I timebox both quite a bit. For Twitter, I often use it in a browser, which is an atrocious UI. And I wrote a scraper for HN years ago that is less addictive, that I still use today: hn.elijames.org
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