Comments on: In your bloodstream: Bradybury, Melville, and the 10,000 hours http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2010/01/09/in-your-bloodstream-bradybury-melville-and-the-10000-hours/ apophenic pretentia Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:51:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: kipbot http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2010/01/09/in-your-bloodstream-bradybury-melville-and-the-10000-hours/#comment-96594 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:43:22 +0000 http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2010/01/09/in-your-bloodstream-bradybury-melville-and-the-10000-hours/#comment-96594 Collins's book is not available on Kindle, so, while I am going to read it for myself (!), it'll have to wait till I get back to the states. Thanks for reminder about a book that clearly grabbed my attention and might just make me a nicer person! Collins’s book is not available on Kindle, so, while I am going to read it for myself (!), it’ll have to wait till I get back to the states. Thanks for reminder about a book that clearly grabbed my attention and might just make me a nicer person!

]]> by: Adrian Davis http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2010/01/09/in-your-bloodstream-bradybury-melville-and-the-10000-hours/#comment-96488 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:43:29 +0000 http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2010/01/09/in-your-bloodstream-bradybury-melville-and-the-10000-hours/#comment-96488 hah... now I've explored our blog, I realise you've come across Harry Collins before - http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2008/09/05/reclaiming-and-reconfiguring-expertise/ but I think you might have to read it yourself! hah… now I’ve explored our blog, I realise you’ve come across Harry Collins before - http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2008/09/05/reclaiming-and-reconfiguring-expertise/
but I think you might have to read it yourself!

]]> by: Adrian Davis http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2010/01/09/in-your-bloodstream-bradybury-melville-and-the-10000-hours/#comment-96454 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:27:18 +0000 http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2010/01/09/in-your-bloodstream-bradybury-melville-and-the-10000-hours/#comment-96454 Hi Kip I really enjoyed your talk at TedXKent yesterday. When I spoke with you I had difficulty recalling the title of a book - it's called "rethinking Expertise", by Harry Collins and Robert Evans. It doesn't look to be available for the Kindle. http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Expertise-Harry-Collins/dp/product-description/0226113612 I'll need to go back and reread it (perhaps not 120 times), but I think it bridges the gap between Teach yourself in 21 days and Gladwell's 10,000hrs. Essentially the professors from Cardiff argue that many people can get by with "interactional expertise" - a proficiency in the language of a specialism - rather than contributional expertise. It seems a short step to conclude that one can gather this expertise more quickly than true contributional capability. It's a relatively short book ~140pp, with an interesting "periodic table of expertises" - though as a chemist, I'm not completely convinced by that analogy. In essence, the book discusses the concept that there's more than one type of expertise to aspire to acquire - and with this wider variety of names for "experts", perhaps you'll be a little less grumpy! have a good trip back to NYC Hi Kip
I really enjoyed your talk at TedXKent yesterday. When I spoke with you I had difficulty recalling the title of a book - it’s called “rethinking Expertise”, by Harry Collins and Robert Evans. It doesn’t look to be available for the Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Expertise-Harry-Collins/dp/product-description/0226113612

I’ll need to go back and reread it (perhaps not 120 times), but I think it bridges the gap between Teach yourself in 21 days and Gladwell’s 10,000hrs. Essentially the professors from Cardiff argue that many people can get by with “interactional expertise” - a proficiency in the language of a specialism - rather than contributional expertise. It seems a short step to conclude that one can gather this expertise more quickly than true contributional capability.
It’s a relatively short book ~140pp, with an interesting “periodic table of expertises” - though as a chemist, I’m not completely convinced by that analogy. In essence, the book discusses the concept that there’s more than one type of expertise to aspire to acquire - and with this wider variety of names for “experts”, perhaps you’ll be a little less grumpy!

have a good trip back to NYC

]]> by: Tony Osgood http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2010/01/09/in-your-bloodstream-bradybury-melville-and-the-10000-hours/#comment-96328 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:46:19 +0000 http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2010/01/09/in-your-bloodstream-bradybury-melville-and-the-10000-hours/#comment-96328 Interesting TEDxKent talk (a fine recovery from tech issues); in effect, as Aristotle noted, some years since now, we become excellent at what we practice. One author wrote how he eschewed inspiration, making sure he was damned well inspired at 9am every morning... ... interesting differences between this crafted, honed product and the current milieu of instant messaging, tweeting, writing without thinking, editing and the like; all for wild heretical stances, but there's a tension between the two. Interesting TEDxKent talk (a fine recovery from tech issues); in effect, as Aristotle noted, some years since now, we become excellent at what we practice. One author wrote how he eschewed inspiration, making sure he was damned well inspired at 9am every morning…

… interesting differences between this crafted, honed product and the current milieu of instant messaging, tweeting, writing without thinking, editing and the like; all for wild heretical stances, but there’s a tension between the two.

]]> by: LDWorldWide » Blog Archive » Curriculum for new farmers http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2010/01/09/in-your-bloodstream-bradybury-melville-and-the-10000-hours/#comment-95662 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:25:19 +0000 http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2010/01/09/in-your-bloodstream-bradybury-melville-and-the-10000-hours/#comment-95662 [...] A couple hours a week for 8 weeks. The course can hardly make anyone an expert (see my friend’s diatribes about how long it takes to get really good at/knowledgable about something), but it provides a meaningful context of the challenges ahead of anyone who wants to launch a farm-related enterprise. Neat! [...] […] A couple hours a week for 8 weeks. The course can hardly make anyone an expert (see my friend’s diatribes about how long it takes to get really good at/knowledgable about something), but it provides a meaningful context of the challenges ahead of anyone who wants to launch a farm-related enterprise. Neat! […]

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