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The Hard Thing About Learning from Experience(commoncog.com)
1 points by shadowsun7 5y ago|0 comments
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The Six Ways People Deflect Inconvenient Data(holistics.io)
2 points by shadowsun7 5y ago|0 comments
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Every Great Business Person Has the Same Mental Model of Business(commoncog.com)
1 points by shadowsun7 5y ago|0 comments
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Product Development as Iterated Taste(commoncog.com)
1 points by shadowsun7 6y ago|0 comments
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How Amazon Measures(holistics.io)
2 points by shadowsun7 6y ago|0 comments
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What's Your Time Preference?(commoncog.com)
1 points by shadowsun7 6y ago|0 comments
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
The point is that improving the cash position of the restaurant (traditionally a low float, low margin business), by moving customers payments forwards in time, allows them to improve their margins by pre-paying their food vendors. This is
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A Short Story About SQL's Biggest Rival(holistics.io)
5 points by shadowsun7 6y ago|1 comments
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‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ Doesn't Work That Well(commoncog.com)
290 points by shadowsun7 6y ago|169 comments
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How to Use YouTube to Learn Tacit Knowledge(commoncog.com)
4 points by shadowsun7 6y ago|0 comments
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Copying Better: How to Acquire the Tacit Knowledge of Experts(commoncog.com)
5 points by shadowsun7 6y ago|0 comments
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
Hey HN. This is something we've been working on for the last three months over at Holistics. If you're a data analyst, data engineer, or a founder setting up a data analytics stack for the first time, this is a book that will give
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Show HN: We wrote a book to help data people build scalable analytics stacks(holistics.io)
33 points by shadowsun7 6y ago|16 comments
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
This might help clarify my problems with deliberate practice somewhat: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-problems-with-deliberate-prac...
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendations! Adding to my toread.
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
In Peak, Ericsson seems to finally settle on one definition, which was what I used in the end. He calls what you just describe "not being able to deliberately practice like a grandmaster" a completely different thing — purposeful
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
> dismissing delivered practice with the quick an for shallowly-addressed claim that it only works in field with established pedagogy This is the actual definition of deliberate practice . As in, Ericsson explicitly says deliberate prac
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
Yes, K. Anders Ericsson (he of deliberate practice fame) calls it 'purposeful practice'.
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
Are you familiar with the Recognition Primed Decision Making Model, or the field of Naturalistic Decision Making? NDM is a field of research that focuses on taking expert intuition (which I refer to as tacit knowledge in this piece), extrac
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Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice(commoncog.com)
344 points by shadowsun7 6y ago|128 comments
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
Who 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.
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
You're absolutely right. As a follow up I wrote https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/ where I finally figured out the three categories that Farnam Street was mixing up: The origins of mental models
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
I am the author. I've read multiple biographies of Buffett, I've read criticisms of his approach, and I've read Hagstrom's book on Focused Portfolios (which Munger said was the most representative of what they were doin
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
I was actually going for 'taste' when I wrote the piece, but this is a good word, as it's more generally applicable. Thank you.
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
You should probably read this, then: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
Cool. Have you done so successfully? I have bought and read nearly every book about Charlie Munger. My conclusion is that 'have a checklist of mental models' is how he says he does what he does. He reasons a lot by analogy to th
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by shadowsun7 6y ago
Author here. A crisper version of the criticism may be found here: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/ It is, in turn, a summary of a 30k word series on 'putting mental models to practice'
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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 comm
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Watch the Cash Flow(commoncog.com)
3 points by shadowsun7 7y ago|0 comments
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by shadowsun7 7y ago
https://commoncog.com/blog/ I write mostly about career moats. I wrote a post about the Metagame that was on HN's front page a few weeks ago. But the context in which that post exists is actually in the context of

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