Talk-driven development: Teaching ... in SWE
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Claim: deliberately preparing to teach forces articulation that reveals knowledge gaps and doubles retention via the Protégé Effect, backed by a 2014 Memory & Cognition study. Practices used: preparing slides, publishing notes and code in a public Git repo, giving repeated short talks, mentoring via a cascading model and rubber‑duck style rehearsal. Outcome: steady increase in discoverability and opportunities — called growing one’s luck surface area — plus clearer docs through digital gardening.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 3:49What is talk-driven development
- 10:27Protégé effect and mentorship
- 17:08Luck surface area explained
- 21:59Summary and Q&A
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