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Expertise is ‘Just’ Pattern Matching
Why Tacit Knowledge Is More Important Than Deliberate Practice - Commonplace - The Commoncog Blog
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As you build fluency in increasingly complex concepts, you can write increasingly complex prompts while keeping each focused on what feels like a single detail. In fact, the ability to think in terms of increasingly complex “chunks” appears to be a significant part of what expertise actually is.
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Andy Matuschak • How to Write Good Prompts
Pattern matching, or reverse pattern matching, is foundational to expertise. Pattern matching is the basis of all intelligence.
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
Then apply your expertise repeatedly in similar situations. This is the only way you will notice patterns, and the essence of intelligence is pattern matching. In my own work with a certain kind of firm, I’ve written down nearly 300 such patterns.
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
Expertise is formed in any area by repeated cycles of learners practicing skills until they are nearly automatic, then having those skills fail in ways that cause the learners to have to think again and learn anew. Then they practice this new skill set to an automatic level of mastery only to see it, too, eventually be challenged.
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
Expert performance is built through thousands of hours of practice in your area of expertise, in varying conditions, through which you accumulate a vast library of such mental models that enables you to correctly discern a given situation and instantaneously select and execute the correct response.