nate-jones-deliberate-practice
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".
When & Why to Use This Skill
Nate B. Jones's Practice Gym is a specialized deliberate practice tool designed for knowledge workers to refine their professional output. It leverages AI to evaluate decision documents, technical specs, and executive updates against rigorous, team-calibrated rubrics. By providing evidence-based feedback and converting complex professional scenarios into focused 15-30 minute drills, this skill helps users identify systematic weaknesses and master the art of high-stakes business communication and documentation.
Use Cases
- Professional Document Auditing: Evaluate decision docs, PRDs, and executive updates against high-standard rubrics with specific, quoted evidence for improvement.
- Team Calibration: Build and align on 'what good looks like' by creating custom rubrics and annotating examples to standardize quality across a department.
- Deliberate Practice Drills: Transform messy, real-world business situations into interactive 15-30 minute practice exercises to sharpen decision-making and writing skills.
- Gap & Weakness Analysis: Perform systematic reviews across multiple artifacts to identify recurring patterns of weakness and perform explicit gap analysis against stronger versions.
- Hiring and Assessment: Generate realistic, artifact-based interview exercises that mirror internal standards to better evaluate candidate competency.
| name | nate-jones-deliberate-practice |
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| description | 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". |
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