Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice

Post by petra » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 2:43 AM UTC

yumaikas wrote: post #106

xrd wrote: post #13

So many amazing thoughts in this article that apply to the world of software engineering. If tacit knowledge is as important as the author makes out, then hiring "young guns" is always going to have a cost over hiring people that have done it before. As an older developer, that's interesting to me. A contrary point, however, is that maybe all businesses are new domains of exploration, so you might as well pay the che…

It's also worth bearing in mind that tacit knowledge can lead you astray. And that tacit knowledge can be developed without having to be in the same room as someone. It's just that it's learned and communicated _differently_ than explicit knowledge. I think there's room to explore in the area of building exercises that try to build this tacit knowledge. Though some things are prohibitively expensive to learn outside…

Post by danielheath » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:37 AM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #112

travisjungroth wrote: post #48

I figured out something very similar in flight school. When I did my instrument rating, I realized my instructor, Sean, wasn’t perfect. No pilot is. But, I believed he could pass an instrument check ride. I could not. I decided that rather than figure out if everything he did was the best way or “worked for me”, I would just do my best Sean impression. I still had the opportunity to get even better by learning from o…

This is how small children learn. They copy first, understand later, sometimes very much later.

Post by partyboat1586 » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 9:02 AM UTC

dmurray wrote: post #97

travisjungroth wrote: post #95

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Thanks. I think it’s much more effective to copy too much rather than too little.

Some people who learn to speak foreign languages fast seem to do this. They copy a native speaker exaggeratedly, almost to the point of parody. And of course young children learn in the same way, by imitating everything rather than trying to filter for the "relevant" bits and imitating those. Most of us are too self-conscious to do this properly though.

Post by sebwi » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 10:29 AM UTC

sebwi wrote: post #86

In general, I agree with the notion that tacit knowledge is often more important than explicit knowledge - and that it may actually be the very essence of human expertise. However, it seems the author mixes some things up. First of all, deliberate practice rests to a high degree on a) pre-existing knowledge on the structure of acquiring a skill and b) an established feedback standard that allows to evaluate your perf…

Post by hliyan » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 12:09 PM UTC

goatlover wrote: post #114

hliyan wrote: post #111

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Isn't what we call thinking simply an introspection layer on top of our neural network hardware? Sometimes I wonder whether the entirety of what we call the mind is just an epiphenomenon that attempts to explain the workings of our neural network after the fact .

If that were true, then cognitive behavior therapy and meditation would have no effect. It's more likely a feedback loop between introspection and the neural network. Sometimes you need the slow, deliberate planning that comes with conscious thought.