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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Some old tweet threads to explain this:
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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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That also means that the best in each field aren't using deliberate practice to improve - only to maintain and refine.
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Can you elaborate more this? Any articles links on this concept that “if you don’t have good pedagogical development in your field, you can’t do deliberate practice”?
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If I’m remembering the commoncog tacit knowledge series right, the argument is that deliberate practice requires legible knowledge of what expertise looks like, out of the heads of experts
If you just have expertise you can’t explain, then you can’t do deliberate practice.
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Id argue that there are skills which are transferrable between fields which lend themselves to deliberate practice.
Writing, for example.
But thats probably me just missing the point of your statement.
I mostly agree with you. Its complicated!
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How would you definite pedagogical development here? Could you give examples of fields either side of the “good” boundary?
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Some old tweets:
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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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