https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833581
blog-post-year-of-spaced-repetition-in-the-classroom#listening-to-skilled-practitioners1 If I'm trying to acquire a new skill, one of the first things I try to do is listen to skilled practitioners of that skill talk about it to each other. What are the terms-of-art? How do they use them? What does this tell me about how they see their craft? Their shorthand is a treasure trove of crystallized concepts; once I can use it the same way they do, I find I'm working at a level of abstraction much closer to theirs. blog-post-year-of-spaced-repetition-in-the-classroom#listening-to-skilled-practitioners1