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Writing online can be weird. I write about the recognition primed decision making model in the past, it doesn't make a splash. But I write about tacit knowledge *first*, and people are saying "oh, how do you actually learn that; how do you put that into practice ...?"
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I feel bad for my long term readers, because I'm likely going to have to cover old ground again. (If you want a preview, much of what you need to know about learning tacit knowledge can be found in commoncog.com/blog/putting-m — you just have to work out the implications.)
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How do you work out the implications? First: understand that the recognition-primed decision making model is how expert intuition works under the hood. Next: look at the model and identify what parts are trainable. Third, look at how NDM researchers design training programs.
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Everything exists in one diagram. It's actually pretty amazing. When I see someone demonstrating tacit expertise today, I ask: what cues is she noticing? What expectancies? What's the prototype in their head like? What activity can I do to gain the same bits of information?
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The NDM people have way more sophisticated approaches, of course. But fundamentally, when they're creating training programs for the military or designing human-friendly user interfaces to augment human expertise, they are doing the same thing.
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