This week's Commonplace post is about tacit knowledge: what it is, why it matters, and why it might be an amazing source of competitive advantage — for now.
commoncog.com/blog/tacit-kno
(Also: why deliberate practice ISN'T what you should be looking at, if you want to get good).
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As an aside, The Oxford Handbook of Expertise is available for $122 on Kindle. It's also over 1000 pages long in paper form.
I'm not looking forward to the shipping costs on this one.
Probably after this COVID craziness is over.
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Was reading understanding computer and cognition and the first part covers concepts from Heidegger and Maturana that made me truly grok for first time in my life why turning knowledge/understanding/expertise into explicit rules has its limits
Now reading suchman
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That's fascinating. Could you write a blog post about Heidegger/Maturana? I'd be very interested to read that.
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As is usual with essays I spend two whole days slaving over, my title game is bad because I just want to publish. This description in the Commonplace newsletter is something that I think does justice to the piece:
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The interesting idea in there is to ask: what memetic vehicle?
Deliberate practice benefited from Gladwell's 10k hour rule. I wonder what the equivalent is for things that are tacit.
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I found this post hugely insightful and thought-provoking - and will kick off a lot of reading. Thank you!
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