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title: Dreyfus's Learning Ladder
categories:
- work
- culture
content-tags:
- business
- learning
- mind
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The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition was popularized by [Pat Benner][1] in the nursing industry.  The model aids understanding of learning and the development of intuition.

This is a much better approach to understanding the productivity gap among software engineers than the popular "packers vs. mappers" approach put forth in [Chapter 1 of The Programmers' Stone][2].

   [1]: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130325228/phobia-20/
   [2]: http://the-programmers-stone.com/the-original-talks/day-1-thinking-about-thinking/
