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<p>So you practised for 10,000 hours but you&rsquo;re still not an expert. What happens next? How to learn deliberate practice: <a href="https://writingslowly.com/2026/06/15/how-to-learn-deliberate-practice.html">https://writingslowly.com/2026/06/15/how-to-learn-deliberate-practice.html</a></p> <p>#ShuHaRi #Expertise #LearningStrategies #PersonalGrowth</p>

<p>Have you heard of &lsquo;deliberate practice&rsquo;?</p> <p>You might well have, because Swedish psychologist Anders Ericsson&rsquo;s work on what makes an expert has been hugely influential over the years. His co-authored original paper from 1993 <sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> has been cited more than 3,000 times and it has spawned…

<p>Pelicans? Well if you insist.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/97469/2026/pelicans.jpg" width="600" height="337" alt="A group of pelicans with large bills and distinctive black and white plumage are floating on the water."> <p>#BirdsOfAustralia<br> #WildlifePhotography #FeatheredFriends</p>

<p>Why must sci-fi author Ted Chiang state in <em>The Atlantic</em> that AI is not conscious? I call this <strong><a href="https://writingslowly.com/2023/05/23/jules-verne-could.html">La Stilla Syndrome</a></strong>: my Jules Verne-inspired name for the delusion our technology is alive. Chiang doesn&rsquo;t buy it and nor should we.</p> <p>#SciFi<br> #ArtificialIntelligence<br> #TedChiang<br> #JulesVerne<br> #TechPhilosophy</p>

<p>Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang has <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/">words of wisdom</a> about so-called AI consciousness:</p> <blockquote> <p>💬 “it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns.”</p> </blockquote> <p>I said this exactly <em>three years</em> ago. We’re still being <a href="https://writingslowly.com/2023/06/07/gaslit-by-machinery.html">gaslit by machinery that…

<blockquote> <p>💬 ”Roughly speaking, the world is divided into two classes: those who use the Card Index System and those who do not.”<br> <cite><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Byles%2C+R.+B%22">Byles, R. B</a>, 1911. <em>The card index system; its principles, uses, operation, and component parts</em> (London: Sir Isaac Pitman &amp; Sons), page v. </cite></p> </blockquote> <p>Still…

<blockquote> <p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a great strength in me showing you a chord or a riff or something, and it&rsquo;s just going from mind to mind, there&rsquo;s no paper involved. All of what we did in this very studio would be that. It was really an immediate transference of ideas.&rdquo;<br> <cite>&ndash; Paul…

<img src="https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9781526672162/cover.jpg" align="left" class="microblog_book" style="max-width: 60px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <p>Currently reading: <a href="https://micro.blog/books/9781526672162">Eight Million Ways to Happiness</a> by Hiroko Yoda 📚</p> <p>Japan is a deeply secular country full of shrines, temples, festivals and ceremonies. This book unpacks the paradox by exploring spiritual life in Japan as it&rsquo;s…

<p>Did previous generations ever think much about atomicity of ideas in their notes? After all, if most people were using notebooks, surely they didn&rsquo;t need to consider how long their notes should be &ndash; they could just keep writing till they were done.</p> <p>It seems thinking about atomicity was a…

<p>I&rsquo;m very interested in Brett Terpstra&rsquo;s Mac app, <a href="https://markedapp.com">Marked3</a>, launched today on <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/marked-2">Product Hunt</a>.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s a utility that gives markdown documents superpowers. I&rsquo;m testing this out for a week but already expect to be buying it. Anyone else using it?</p> <p>#Markdown #MacApps #WritingTools</p>