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...

- Teaching simplified concepts and then progressively complexifying is bad. - Recall memory doesn't help with inferential understanding/advanced knowledge acquisition. - So spaced repetition recall of facts are bad! (You need to promote 'adaptive schema assembly'.)

The key question: What’s the most important thing I could be doing right now to make progress on the project? Do that. Don’t worry about the parts that remain frozen. If you keep answering the question, eventually, their time will come.