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Feeling accomplished. I am building a continuous verification app at work that has launched me on a journey to get to a higher level of Golang craft.

As I get deeper and my mental model expands, piece by piece my brain has been able to grasp dependency injection. Today I hit another comprehension milestone where things congealed even further. I think about it spatially, as a sort of undifferentiated 3D medium in my head.

It's like when learning moves to solve a cube puzzle, it's difficult to think about each step, but after deliberate practice you form the mental model that lets muscle memory do the movement, not your thinking.

Musicians, dancers, baseball pitchers, place kickers... all sorts of high performance activities include expertise like this.

One of the biggest problems I have in learning is that my brain can't hold onto new definitions very well. I can't put words to memory, but if I can practice the word along with something that I *can* remember, then I get a visual metaphor that cements the meaning of the word. With practice, that association becomes muscle memory and I don't need the visual aid nor the intellectual logic.

Expertise is not intellectual. It is only imprint-able. It lies closer to emotion than it does to knowledge.

What's more is that we learn expertise in spite of it. All it takes is repetition. Even the workers who repeat the same simple task 1000 times are more expert at it than the first 100.

Expertise is human nature. We don't find expertise, it finds us.

#expertise #complexity #resilience #golang #SRE #ContinuousVerification