It’s really interesting to see the evolution of Hacker News comments over time.
My article on tacit knowledge is on the front page of HN again. The last time it was on the front page, a good chunk of the comments argued that tacit knowledge didn’t exist.
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Now they mostly argue that deliberate practice is a completely orthogonal thing that leads to tacit knowledge. (Accurate, but misses the point!)
Perhaps tacit knowledge is now more palatable to the HN commentari?
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Altogether now: if 👏 you 👏 don’t 👏 have 👏 good 👏 pedagogical 👏 development 👏 in 👏 your 👏 field 👏 you 👏 can’t 👏 do 👏 deliberate 👏 practice!
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My old post on The Problems with Deliberate Practice is on the front page of Hacker News.
I wrote a comment that I think sums up my experience with Deliberate Practice pretty well: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=284551
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1/ One of my most persistent irritations is with the whole 'OH YOU NEED TO DO DELIBERATE PRACTICE' meme.
Ugh, no, perhaps you don't. It depends on your domain. Deliberate practice has problems. Have you even tried?
I've written about this before, but here's a thread.
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