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The problem is that most knowledge workers I know make their living off of their somehow differentiated skillset and knowledgebase, but they have only a few brittle ways of developing and retaining those skills. This is how I've built a deliberate practice for improving and retaining my skills.
But why? If nobody does it, then maybe it's not worth doing. I'm motivated by analogy: musicians drill themselves frequently even late into their careers. When a musician drills scales, this enables them to think at a higher level of abstraction when playing a piece - instead of thinking in notes, they think about what "key" a song is in. Drills enable improv, because instant recall frees the mind for more creative endeavors.
Likewise, my knowledgebase and coding need to be automatic to free my mind to focus its limited power on the most creative parts of my work. I want to improv, not spend all my time looking things up - those interruptions prevent me from inventing new ideas. A concert pianist wouldn't stand for that, so neither should I.
However, I'm lazy. So are most musicians. Everyone hates scales. So here's how I make it easy and fun.
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See: Michael Nielsen (Cognitive Medium)
See: Piotr Wozniak (Supermemo)
I recoomend looking around a lot of the Supermemo blog, particularly these two: