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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
I’ve been thinking about the implications of this thread for a few months now. I suspect it’s one reason why I’m so suspicious of framework thinkers, or, alternatively folk who like to reduce complex stories down to a few ‘takeaways’.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
1/ Let's talk about how note taking can help you accelerate expertise. Yes, I know how that sounds like. No, this isn't hype. There's some solid cognitive science here, and it has FASCINATING things to say about the nature of learning in messy, real world domains.
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Cedric Chin
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You can’t use a framework if you don’t know all the ways it instantiates in the real world. Similarly, reductive takeaways from stories kill much of the necessary context. It prevents you from reasoning effectively by analogy.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
One actionable implication: when you read a framework (e.g. 7 Powers; Crossing the Chasm) you should spend the next few months actively searching for stories that demonstrate the framework in action. Preferably stories that are as different from each other as possible.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
Another actionable implication: you’ll want a quick way to double check the story, so having it in an accessible, digital format is a boon. This is even after adjusting for the fact that we remember stories better than we do arguments — I find I still forget critical detail.
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Joel Chan 🔍 | joelchan86@hci.social
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Seems related (boiled down principle sounds like, and probably is, inert truism w/o the complex and rich embedding of all the cases!):
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interactionist
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I would say that acheiving some stance (way of perceiving, spontaneus acting etc) is often non trivial amout of work... And the fact that the expression of this stance sounds trivial is because language cannot capture most of this work
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Chris Wong
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You see this in a lot of threads people write nowadays
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Michael will YouTube if the sky falls
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the problem, as I see it, with 'wisdom threads' of the form: "I read all of Tesla's annual reports; here's 7 things I learned about annual reports 👇" is the format itself makes any wisdom in them seem trite and clichéd I would actively avoid that format if I had actual wisdom
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