Competence Mirage
(Note: This is an AI-assisted teaser for my prior manual writing. If you like it and want to read more details about this topic/perspective, then check out my 100% manually-written blog and books!)
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Can you still do it without the notes, without Google, without AI?
The real test of learning is what remains after the supports disappear.
It’s easy to feel confident when the answer’s just one search away.
But real competence isn’t measured by what you can do with help.
It’s measured by what you can do on your own.
Here are the 100% manually-written long-forms that this teaser is distilled from, if you want to dive deeper:
- Comfortable Fluency in Consuming Information is Not a Proxy For Actual Learning
- Retrieval Practice is F*cking Obvious
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