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Author here. You're right, this was an initial attempt at criticism. Shane Parrish of Farnam Street reached out to me a few weeks after I published this, and t
by shadowsun7 6y ago
Author here. You're right, this was an initial attempt at criticism. Shane Parrish of Farnam Street reached out to me a few weeks after I published this, and then I spent the next year as a member of Farnam Street's learning community, executing a research program around this criticism so as to make it more constructive. A crisp version of that series may be found here: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/ https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/
The core of this series stems from the observation that all expertise is tacit. Polanyi and Papert has the best articulated expression of these ideas, and they match up to my experience in actually pursuing expertise.
- ssivark 6y agoI find quite funny the irony in the situation. You’ve come to the interesting realization (your tacit knowledge / mental model) that most useful knowledge is tacit. You’ve written an article on this, but that is very much like communicating a mental model — and readers are having a hard time making sense of it, and are therefore denying the message ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You might find interesting the concept of “legibility” as discussed on the Ribbonfarm blog.
- shadowsun7 6y agoWho says my goal is to convince those who deny the message? As per Papert, you're either ready to learn something or you aren't. The more people who do not get this, the larger the competitive advantage for those of us who do.
- ssivark 6y agoI never said you’re trying to convince readers; it is simply interesting to observe the impedance mismatch in play, as yet another case study :-)