Indeed, this seems a little misleading (or perhaps I have too broad a view of deliberate practice). The submission talks about learning to ride a bike by first

Indeed, this seems a little misleading (or perhaps I have too broad a view of deliberate practice). The submission talks about learning to ride a bike by first gliding for short periods, then longer periods, then pedalling. Is this not deliberate practice? Or identifying that you struggle with understanding software design, and then working on create designs and getting feedback to improve them so you can develop your own intuition for how to design good software - this also seems like deliberate practice to me. I'll assume the best in the author, that he simply interpreted deliberate practice differently than I did such that it was not useful for most things, and now he's trying to share the method that worked for him. But to me this is exactly what I would expect from deliberate practice.