The Pebble and the Avalanche

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Current Revolutions in Business and Technology

by Dr. Moshe Yudkowsky,

author of The Pebble and The Avalanche: How Taking Things Apart Creates Revolutions

 

Tue, 2008-Apr-01, 08:51

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How to Transform a Competent Person into an Expert

How do you help someone move from incompetence — not a pejorative term, just a descriptive one — to competence, and how do you help someone go beyond ordinary competence to true expertise?

At a recent conference in Melbourne, Australia, the people who educate the educators met to discuss various techniques, including better ways to use standardized patients. Among them was Dr. Rachel Yudkowsky, who discussed the role of disaggregation in becoming an expert.

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