Design for How People Build Skills

Conclusion

In which we claw our way onto the summit and take a look around.

I always learn a lot while writing a book. Things I think are very clear in my head turn out to be murky and vague when I try to write them down. The act of writing helps me clarify and refine my ideas, and forces me to find ways to explain them that give readers solid ground to stand on for their own practice.

Whether I’ve succeeded in this book is for you to judge, but if you’ve read this far, I can say with certainty that you are someone committed to your own skills journey and that you care about doing better.

A few ideas that really came into focus for me while writing this book are:

If the feedback doesn’t work, nothing else matters. If the basic unit of skills ...