What Are You Tracking In Your Head? - LessWrong

A key skill of many experts (that is often hard to teach) is keeping track of extra information in their head while working. For example a programmer…

x What Are You Tracking In Your Head? — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2022 Expertise (topic) Tacit Knowledge Practical Rationality Curated 303 What Are You Tracking In Your Head? by johnswentworth 28th Jun 2022 5 min read 84 303 A large chunk - plausibly the majority - of real-world expertise seems to be in the form of illegible skills : skills/knowledge which are hard to transmit by direct explanation. They’re not necessarily things which a teacher would even notice enough to consider important - just background skills or knowledge which is so ingrained that it becomes invisible. I’ve recently

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