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Oct 5, 2020

This is so evident when you hear athletes describe how they do a certain skill to novices of the sport. Maybe this is why any type of short-sprint camp (coding/sports/etc) fails to truly benefit the attendees because of lack of tacit knowledge?

@ejames_c

commoncog.com/blog/tacit-kno

Cedric Chin

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I think short sprint camps are ok: they give students the basics to go pursue tacit expertise of their own. You can’t learn to write like Hemingway without a bootcamp in grammar.

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Oct 5, 2020

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@ejames_c

That's a good point with the assumption being that students are willing to pursue tacit expertise (aka "practice") of their own moving forward. At least in the domain of sports & in my experience, I know students expect the tacit expertise after a short stint.

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But I believe that this may be specific to sports? The expectation is not found (again in my experience) in other skills like writing etc - difference along athletics and "intellectual" activities? I'll have to finish reading the series since I perhaps am way off in my thinking

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