Have you ever tried putting deliberate practice to practice? If you have, it's likely that you'll have noticed just how difficult it is to apply deliberate practice principles to your career. Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying; here's why.| Commoncog
We take a look at how you might turn extracted, tacit expertise into a training program for yourself or others.| Commoncog
All great business people share a common, intuitive mental model of business. We look at how researcher Lia DiBello extracted that mental model.| Commoncog
A few weeks ago, I helped Amplitude head of product education John Cutler extract tacit expertise around diagnosing and improving product organisations. Here's how that went.| Commoncog
A look at Laura Militello and Robert Hutton's Applied Cognitive Task Analysis, a simplified method for getting at the tacit expertise of others.| Commoncog
David Epstein's mediocre book argues the merits of being a generalist. Instead of reading it, read this and subscribe to Epstein's newsletter.| Commoncog
YouTube is the biggest thing to have happened to tacit skill acquisition in the past couple of decades. Here's how to use it.| Commoncog
Much of expertise is tacit: that is, it cannot be captured through words alone. We look at techniques, drawn from the field of Naturalistic Decision Making, designed to acquire the tacit knowledge of experts.| Commoncog
Working Backwards is the first book that explains how Amazon really works.| Commoncog
What tacit knowledge is, and why it is the most interesting topic in the study of expertise today.| Commoncog
Building effective organisations is a remarkably useful, if rare, skill. This is what it looks like, what it consists of, and how to tell if someone has it.| Commoncog
What if you could reach into the heads of great businesspeople and pluck out the superstructure of their expertise? Commoncog has a unique approach to the study of business. This is that approach. In the late 1980s, the US Military began funding a branch of psychology called ‘Naturalistic Decision Making’| Commoncog
What expertise in Capital looks like in the context of business.| Commoncog
One software engineer's story of extracting expertise from the heads of 'a tiger team of senior software engineers'. Useful to anyone who might want to accelerate their own skills.| Commoncog
Why bother learning history, when history isn't likely to repeat itself? We take a look at what Cognitive Flexibility Theory tells us about the best way to learn from other people's experiences.| Commoncog
There are three types of tacit knowledge, all of which 'cannot be captured through words alone'.| Commoncog
What does it mean to be data driven in business? Most people think being data driven means looking at charts on a daily basis. Or they attempt to use data in their orgs, and then fall into one of the many traps that come with the territory. How do you| Commoncog
Accelerated Expertise is the best book we have on creating accelerated training programs today.| Commoncog