This is one of those times when I THINK I'm summarising one paper, but then that one paper leads me to 5 other case studies and a book, and then before I know it the string I've pulled is a ridiculous history of theory and practice.

Well, this aged pretty well: statnews.com/2021/08/02/bela…

Not sure if sign of expertise, or extreme nerdery, but I’m starting to reach the point where I can recognise authors in the citations of expertise research papers. (e.g. oh, this is Hambrick, he’s probably going to say something negative about Deliberate Practice …...

The context (as I understand it) is more “you’ve spent years developing training programs that accelerate expertise acquisition for various military/org/business applications for us, please tell us what you know before the knowledge vanishes with you.”

Word of warning if you want to read this: this was written for the Department of Defence, and is intended for other org psychologists and military training program designers. It assumes you have a background in existing expertise research. It is not written for the...

- 'Advanced learning is promoted by emphasising the interconnectedness of multiple cases and concepts along multiple dimensions, and use of multiple highly organised representations.' -> holy shit. I might need to rethink what I know about expertise acquisition.

- Storehouse model of memory is bad (fact memorisation, practice + immediate feedback — bad) - Cognitive load theory is true but not useful (experts operate with distractions). - 'Learning advances (only?) when flawed mental models are replaced, stable when model is...