Cultivating Instinct
summary
Argues that explicit perceptual training compresses intuition: a 1920s Japanese chick-sexing school produces sexers doing 1,200 chicks per hour at 97% accuracy after two years; Phillip Kellman’s pilots jump from ~50% to ~80% correct on 20s cockpit-location trials after 3 hours perceptual training, and non-pilots reach 60% beating pilots without training; middle-schoolers’ fraction problem scores rise from 40% to 70% long-term; practical wins include reducing 2,500 hourly DB calls by ~40% through noticing patterns.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Unexpected encounter
- 1:09Synesthesia explained
- 4:24Expertise beyond facts
- 7:18Chick sexing in Japan
- 9:26Perceptual learning science
- 15:32Training intuition explicitly
- 20:08Programming instincts
- 27:55Designing training materials
- 31:46Empowering new developers
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