Technical Excellence

Questions by Amélie Cornélis in April 2019

What does technical excellence mean to you?
What forms do you see deliberate practice take?
How do you pick areas to focus on?
How to balance breadth vs depth of expertise?
'Being excellent' is very abstract. How would you turn that into a set of concrete, actionable items?
What benefits do you see from deliberate practice?
How can we get the feedback required to make deliberate practice effective?
When do you see deliberate practice fail?
What helps you achieve technical excellence?
How do you make time to engage in deliberate practice?
When should we favour book learning over practice, and vice versa?
When do you know you’ve become technically excellent?