Is there any good example of a field where the knowledge isn't kept quite so "linear read a book then other then integrate" types but have different modalities? eg hyperlinked concept graphs, interactive learning sims, large datasets of time/place/action, etc.
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Marine fire squad tactics are stored in a library of ‘tactical decision making games’. There are lectures, but the games are an important way the knowledge gets transferred.
Modern competition judo consists of 70% gripping/setups for throws. These don’t exist in any book.
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Hmm interesting. It feels the counter to exists in books *is* tacit learning, without much other methods in the middle of knowledge capture. The games are a great point, and the design of those games must be interesting.
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Well, if you’re interested, I wrote up some of those techniques here: commoncog.com/blog/accelerat
But the more I dig, the more I realise there’s a lot of tacit, or at least unwritten knowledge in the design of these simulations.
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To be clear, there’s a lot of knowledge that isn’t written down simply because it’s too much work to write a book (+ the knowledge evolves rapidly). But it’s explicit in the sense that it’s easily transmissible. Cutting edge cryptoeconomics or cutting edge ML seems like this.
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In which case the learning modality is “embed yourself in the right expertise networks”
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Very true. And thanks for the article, will read! I did write about tacit knowledge first here strangeloopcanon.com/p/two-stories- - and then struck by the question of why there aren't other knowledge capture methods! Our explicit knowledge transfer methods also seem fairly one track.
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The article on accelerated expertise was great ! I especially liked the use of taking whole situations and turning them into training sims, using (sometimes tacit) expertise that exists with others as a key input. We need more such games.
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