Learning curves

Minimum viable whatever, experience curve, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering

February 3, 2020 — March 14, 2024

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Figure 1

Various brief notes on ease and mastery. Getting good with practice, at an individual and organisational scale.

1 Individual learning curves

Figure 2: Approximate 10-year learning curve for various instruments (Jordà 2004)

2 Organisational learning curves

3 References

Ebbinghaus. 1885. Über Das Gedächtnis: Untersuchungen Zur Experimentellen Psychologie.
———. 1913. Our Knowledge Concerning Memory. In Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology.
———. 2013. Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology.” Annals of Neurosciences.
Jordà. 2004. Instruments and Players: Some Thoughts on Digital Lutherie.” Journal of New Music Research.
Murray-Browne. 2012. “Balancing Creative Freedom with Musical Development.”
Wright. 1936. Factors Affecting the Cost of Airplanes.” Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences.