

We take a look at using YouTube to learn Judo, computer programming, and music, before generalising several principles from all three domains. How to Use YouTube to Learn Tacit Knowledge - We can't really talk about tacit knowledge today without talking about YouTube.This post is about definitions, and it is a summary of Harry Collins's Explicit and Tacit Knowledge - the best book I've read on the topic. The Three Kinds of Tacit Knowledge - It turns out there are three kinds of tacit knowledge, all of which are ‘things that cannot be captured through words alone’.The models helps us understand why expertise is tacit, and gives us levers to extract tacit knowledge from the heads of practitioners. This post walks through the recognition-primed decision making model from the field of Naturalistic Decision Making. Because this is our goal, we should focus our attention on domains that are most focused on studying it. Copying Better: How To Acquire The Tacit Knowledge of Experts - The sort of tacit knowledge I am interested in is that of ‘expert intuition’.Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice - In which we talk about the existence of tacit knowledge, how it relates to expertise, and why the research around tacit knowledge extraction is more interesting and more underrated than the deliberate practice literature.Anders Ericsson's Peak, and The Problems With Deliberate Practice. This series explores how expertise is tacit, why the research around extracting tacit knowledge is more important than the literature on deliberate practice, and how to go about acquiring tacit knowledge in the pursuit of skill acquisition.Īlso related: my summary of K. Tacit knowledge is ‘knowledge that cannot be captured through words alone’.
