And the infuriating response where people act like this obvious thing isn’t real or is specific to the examples that then get hen pecked into even more specific irrelevance (“well, technically...”), or motte and bailey’d etc.
One part of this is that Informational rentiers/gatekeepers have to maintain a facade that they’re not doing something that goes against common sense norms.
I’d put it in a way that is pretty explicit: most people are trained so completely to uphold obvious lies, stupidities, and failures of those deemed higher status that they start actually hallucinating clothing on the emperor.
Skill training is just one downstream consequence of this. Where the correct procedure doesn’t flow from the territory, but via some other person’s map that has been officially sanctioned.
The Ericsson Question (in the tradition of the Hamming question): what are the most important skills in your problem domain? What would a deliberate practice system look like for those skills?
Thank you so much for this. Writing about this kind of topic is inherently difficult because almost by definition a majority of people will disagree whatever contemporary examples I use. It’s like documenting an antimemetic SCP.
And the infuriating response where people act like this obvious thing isn’t real or is specific to the examples that then get hen pecked into even more specific irrelevance (“well, technically...”), or motte and bailey’d etc.
One part of this is that Informational rentiers/gatekeepers have to maintain a facade that they’re not doing something that goes against common sense norms.
I’d put it in a way that is pretty explicit: most people are trained so completely to uphold obvious lies, stupidities, and failures of those deemed higher status that they start actually hallucinating clothing on the emperor.
Skill training is just one downstream consequence of this. Where the correct procedure doesn’t flow from the territory, but via some other person’s map that has been officially sanctioned.
The sky is blue <removed for lack of citation, see talk page>
Why don’t the high status talk about technique? Because it’s embarrassing how bad they are at it.
Thus kakonomics.
There is a way out.
The Ericsson Question (in the tradition of the Hamming question): what are the most important skills in your problem domain? What would a deliberate practice system look like for those skills?
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Why aren’t you doing something like that system?
I’ve never heard this one before. I like it!
Thank you so much for this. Writing about this kind of topic is inherently difficult because almost by definition a majority of people will disagree whatever contemporary examples I use. It’s like documenting an antimemetic SCP.