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).
Conversation
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:
Replying to
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.
3
