Fingerspitzengefühl [ˈfɪŋɐˌʃpɪtsənɡəˌfyːl] is a German term, literally meaning "finger tips feeling" and meaning intuitive flair or instinct, which has been adopted by the English language as a loanword. It describes a great situational awareness, and the ability to respond most appropriately and tactfully. It can also be applied to diplomats, bearers of bad news, or to describe a superior ability to respond to an escalated situation. The term is sometimes used to describe the instinctive play of certain football players. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl cf OODA

Bloom's 2 sigma problem refers to an educational phenomenon observed by educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom and initially reported in 1984 in the journal Educational Researcher. Bloom found that the average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better than students who learn via conventional instructional methods—that is, "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class".[1]: 4  Additionally, the variation of the students' achievement changed: "about 90% of the tutored students ... attained the level of summative achievement reached by only the highest 20%" of the control class.[1]: 4  Bloom's graduate students J. Anania and A. J. Burke conducted studies of this effect at different grade levels and in different schools, observing students with "great differences in cognitive achievement, attitudes, and academic self-concept" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

K. Anders Ericsson (October, 23, 1947[1] – June 17, 2020)[2] was a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who was internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. Ericsson studied expert performance in domains such as medicine, music, chess, and sports, focusing exclusively on extended deliberate practice (e.g., high concentration practice beyond one's comfort zone) as a means of how expert performers acquire their superior performance. Critically, Ericsson's program of research served as a direct complement to other research[3][4] that addresses cognitive ability, personality, interests, and other factors that help researchers understand and predict deliberate practice and expert performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Anders_Ericsson

A case study is an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case (or cases) within a real-world context.[1][2] For example, case studies in medicine may focus on an individual patient or ailment; case studies in business might cover a particular firm's strategy or a broader market; similarly, case studies in politics can range from a narrow happening over time (e.g., a specific political campaign) to an enormous undertaking (e.g., a world war). Generally, a case study can highlight nearly any individual, group, organization, event, belief system, or action. A case study does not necessarily have to be one observation (N=1), but may include many observations (one or multiple individuals and entities across multiple time periods, all within the same case study).[3][4][5][6] Research projects involving numerous cases are frequently called cross-case research, whereas a study of a single case is called within-case research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_study (more)

bio : One of the world's leading Artificial Intelligence researchers, Dr. Schank is the author of more than 125 articles and publications. His books include: Dynamic Memory: A Theory of Learning in Computers and People, Tell Me a Story: A New Look at Real and Artificial Memory, The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind, and Engines for Education. (more)

Roger Schank learning method, cf Case Study, Simulation.

Ken Norton: Product Manager Zero. How do you know when it’s time to add a product manager to the team? (more)

cf Idea Maze

Alas, don't get there often, eat near Barrington Il. (more)

Re-discovery of Classical thought in Europe roughly 1400-1600. The present trend among historians is to discuss each so-called renaissance in more particular terms, e.g., the Italian Renaissance, the English Renaissance, etc. This terminology is particularly useful because it eliminates the need for fitting "The Renaissance" into a chronology that previously held that it was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the Reformation (and then Age of Enlightenment), which many believe to be inaccurate. The entire period is now often replaced by the term "Early-Modern". (more)

Cedric Chin: Reality Without Frameworks. When you’re inexperienced, frameworks are wonderful things. (more)

Cedric Chin: Peak. Professor K. Anders Ericsson has had a very accomplished career studying the forms and origins of expertise. Early in his life he worked under renowned polymath Herbert Simon. (more)

Cedric Chin: A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice. A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice is a series of posts that examines the notion of putting 'mental models' to practice in one's life, in the pursuit of learning better decision making. (more)

Cedric Chin: The Land and Expand Strategy for Reading. ...reading in service of career goals (more)

An immutable in-memory database and Datalog query engine in Clojure and ClojureScript. https://github.com/tonsky/datascript (more)

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ (more)

some of my favorite bassists (more)

RESTful Web APIs book by Leonard Richardson and Mike Amundsen, with a forward by Sam Ruby. ISBN:1449358063 https://www.crummy.com/writing/RESTful-Web-APIs/ (more)

Frank Chimero: The Web’s Grain. It is a companion to What Screens Want, a previous essay on designing natively for screens (2013-11-14-ChimeroWhatScreensWant) Here we have a very vanilla website. No styles, just markup. All defaults. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid19 6/9/22: Nice. Things seem to have peaked in the Northeast once again. Nice. Things are getting worse in the South as the summer hits. Not as nice, not that unexpected. At this point we can pattern match. You know what else is nice? Not having to care about the pandemic (more)