http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition

Stages

In the novice stage, a person follows rules as given, without context, with no sense of responsibility beyond following the rules exactly. Competence develops when the individual develops organizing principles to quickly access the particular rules that are relevant to the specific task at hand; hence, competence is characterized by active decision making in choosing a course of action. Proficiency is shown by individuals who develop intuition to guide their decisions and devise their own rules to formulate plans. The progression is thus from rigid adherence to rules to an intuitive mode of reasoning based on tacit knowledge.

Michael Eraut summarized the five stages of increasing skill as follows:[2]

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I’m still working on the taxonomy here and I’ll probably edit this down–artbobo

tech news
http://techcrunch.com/
http://www.techmeme.com/
http://daringfireball.net/
http://mrgan.tumblr.com/
http://db.tidbits.com/
http://allthingsd.com/
http://thesmallwave.com/
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/index.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/
http://gigaom.com/
http://www.bigcontrarian.com/

web dev
http://www.alistapart.com/
http://news.ycombinator.com/

politics
http://www.truth-out.org/
http://www.alternet.org/
http://counterpunch.com/
http://www.mediagazer.com/

living and stuff
http://www.reddit.com/
http://kottke.org/
http://topicfire.com/World
http://mashable.com/
http://boingboing.net/
http://athousandnations.com/
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/
http://37signals.com/svn/
http://www.good.is/
http://lifehacker.com/
http://makezine.com/
http://mcsweeneys.net/
http://www.metafilter.com/