Cultivating Instinct • Katrina Owen • YOW! 2023

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Perth 2023. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Katrina Owen - Co-founder and Director of Exercism @kytrinyxx RESOURCES https://twitter.com/kytrinyx https://github.com/kytrinyx ABSTRACT As novices we slowly and laboriously sift through a chaotic flood of minutia. To experts the significant details are obvious. Irrelevant details fade to the background. The novice receives a jumble of meaningless impressions; the expert sees patterns and meaning. Somehow experts have made the trek from "How could you possibly tell?" to "How could you not?". And they probably can't tell you how they got there. This talk examines the topic of perceptual learning through the lens of theory and practice — research and anecdotes — and speculates how it can be deployed strategically to train new experts. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 03:23 Expertise 04:10 Intuition 05:50 How do you teach intuition? 08:05 Science 10:27 How we extract information 17:51 Perceptual learning in code 25:05 An amateur's guide 37:49 What's next? 30:15 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/perth-2023/sessions/2688 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Eric Normand • Grokking Simplicity • https://amzn.to/3gz7o3C Neal Ford • Functional Thinking • https://amzn.to/3DdP35B Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • https://amzn.to/3tCz1xO Geoffrey West • Scale • http://amzn.to/3eKMbpc Fred Brooks Jr. • The Mythical Man-Month • https://williamgibsonbooks.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Instinct #CultivatingInstinct #Synesthesia #BecomingAnExpert #Expertise #KatrinaOwen #YOWcon Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1