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nate-jones-deliberate-practice

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Nate B. Jones's Practice Gym for knowledge workers. Evaluate decision docs, specs, and exec updates against rubrics with quoted evidence. Build team-calibrated rubrics. Convert messy situations into 15-30 min practice drills. See stronger versions with explicit gap analysis. Find systematic weakness patterns. Create artifact-based interview exercises. Triggers on "evaluate my doc", "score this", "build a rubric", "practice drill", "what did I miss", "weakness pattern", "interview exercise", "calibrate rubric".

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Knowledge Worker Practice Gym

AI-powered deliberate practice for knowledge work. Each prompt is interactive - paste it, answer the opening question, and the model guides you through.

Workflow Selection

Not sure where to start?

  • Router (auto-selects the right workflow) -> references/00-router.md

Revenue Architect (FirstMile)?

  • 4 calibrated rubrics + 38 Questions integration -> references/10-revenue-architect-practice-gym.md
  • LinkedIn thought leadership content -> references/11-linkedin-content-rubric.md

Evaluating an artifact?

  • Decision docs, one-pagers -> references/01-decision-doc-evaluator.md
  • PRDs, specs, process docs -> references/02-spec-evaluator.md
  • Exec emails, status updates -> references/03-executive-update-evaluator.md

Building standards?

  • Define "what good looks like" -> references/04-rubric-builder.md
  • Calibrate with real examples -> references/05-example-annotator.md

Practicing or hiring?

  • Convert messy situation to drill -> references/06-messy-to-drill.md
  • See what you missed -> references/07-stronger-version.md
  • Find patterns across docs -> references/08-weakness-analyzer.md
  • Create interview exercise -> references/09-interview-exercise.md

Usage Patterns

Individual: Rubric Builder -> weekly Messy-to-Drill -> Evaluator -> Stronger Version -> monthly Weakness Analyzer

Team: Rubric Builder (group session) -> Example Annotator (calibrate) -> wire Evaluators to review process -> track scores quarterly

Hiring: Interview Exercise Generator -> use same rubric as internal practice

The Chain

skill -> recurring behavior -> recognizable pattern in artifacts -> rubric -> drills