Deliberate practice and skill

AI and Expertise

Talks FEDA Education Gala · 14 June 2026 · Talk

Creation is perception: On the role of skill in the age of AI

Writing AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 12 April 2025 · Blog post

Potemkin wisdoms, phronesis and Pixar: How wise sayings protect us from meaning

Writing Metaphor Hacker · 21 January 2020 · Blog post

The piece argues that concise principles become empty social signals unless practical wisdom reconnects them to changing behaviour in specific contexts.

5 books on knowledge and expertise: Reading list for exploring the role of knowledge and deliberate practice in the development of expert performance

Writing Metaphor Hacker · 30 June 2019 · Blog post

The piece recommends five complementary books for understanding expert performance through mental representations, deliberate practice, conceptual blending, social knowledge, and reflection in action.

Language learning in literature as a source domain for generative metaphors about anything

Writing Metaphor Hacker · 1 June 2011 · Blog post

The piece uses literary depictions of language learning to propose a model of expertise that includes strategy, emotion, and social participation.

Models in professional knowledge

Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 November 2005 · Blog post

The post asks how professionals construct and reconcile conflicting models derived from aggregate evidence and salient individual cases.

Building Your Language Muscle

Guides Interactive guide

An interactive companion to the guide Building Your Language Muscle, which applies deliberate practice to language learning. Readers can read the guide with progress tracking, highlight passages and export them as Markdown, and share…

Developing Competence

Guides Framework

An interactive application based on the Developing Competence approach, which divides competence into conceptual (mental maps) and procedural (fluency) parts and describes progress from Novice through Apprentice and Practitioner to…

Guide to Deliberate Practice as a Universal Learning Method

Guides Interactive guide

An interactive guide to understanding and applying the principles of deliberate practice. Readers can adjust the display (dark mode, focus mode, reading ruler, text-to-speech, font, spacing and width), highlight text and add notes, ask…

KeyMaster

Apps Plugins and research tools

Tool for learning and documenting keyboard shortcuts.

TimeFlex

Apps Web apps

Flexible Interval Training: Plan it, time it, log it. Or just time it.

Výjimeční

Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism

The review presents Malcolm Gladwell's argument that exceptional achievement depends on opportunity, accumulated practice, and social context as well as talent.