Critical Thinking
Task Times and The Planning Fallacy
Monday, August 18th, 2008Even when I take into account the Planning Fallacy, I still underestimate how long it takes other people to do things
A good look at Planning and Task Timing problems from 43 Folders.
Interactional Expertise - The dangers of parasitical experts who "know" but cannot "do"
Thursday, June 12th, 2008A recent Scientific American reviews of “Rethinking Expertise” by Harry Collins and Robert Evans got me thinking about the problem of “experts” and expert advice.
From the review:
This slim book by Harry Collins and Robert Evans offers a conceptual typology of “expertises.” The authors invent a plural form of the word to suggest that more than [...]