As my Christmas present to you all, here is a list of my top-10 metal tunes of 2020, in no particular order. It's a mixed bag of genres and styles, but they're all bangers!

First up, The Terror Begins by Make Them Die Slowly. Horror-movie inspired grind/black/industrial from Mick Kenney and Duncan Wilkins.
https://t.co/0QboX6EBMt
Next, Northern Irish thrashers @gamabomb, with Lords of the Hellfire Club from their excellent new album Sea Savage. https://t.co/fdR16ky3mi
Now for something a bit off the beaten track: brilliant New York black metal experimentalists @imperialnyc's City Swine.
https://t.co/HDKgfe7yDF
Time for something a bit more accessible: this year's best symphonic metal from Sweden's @eleine. Here's the title track from the fantastic 'Dancing in Hell' album.
https://t.co/mvJ650pgcH
From the symphonic to the raw and grungy: Chelsea Wolfe and Jess Gowrie's new band Mrs Piss with Downers Surrounded by Uppers. https://t.co/yvdhtsljWW
Next, the most affecting metal song to come out this year, Tuskegee. @zealandardor's unique combination of black metal, blues and spirituals makes them the most exciting band in metal imo. https://t.co/hq4kTDBd1V
More great black metal, A Hostile Fate from Manchester's @Winterfylleth: https://t.co/A7cnFKq7oK
Time for some Tech-Death: for me, @contrarianband are particularly strong in combining spectacular musicianship with great songwriting, as demonstrated here on In a Blink of an Eye: https://t.co/m46if1xutV
Now turning down the tempo with a haunting track from Hungarian duo The Moon and Nightspirit, Aether. https://t.co/sn7ppwoCCP
And finally, for a more mainstream sound, Fearless by Sweden's @Amaranthemetal, from their excellent album 'Manifest' https://t.co/2UlWchslA6

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Working on a newsletter edition about deliberate practice.

Deliberate practice is crucial if you want to reach expert level in any skill, but what is it, and how can it help you learn more precisely?

A thread based on @augustbradley's conversation with the late Anders Ericsson.

You can find my complete notes from the conversation in my public Roam graph:
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The entire conversation is on

The 10,000-hour 'rule' was based on Ericsson's research, but simple practice is not enough for mastery.

We need teachers and coaches to give us feedback on how we're doing to adjust our actions effectively. Technology can help us by providing short feedback loops.

There's purposeful and deliberate practice.

In purposeful practice, you gain breakthroughs by trying out different techniques you find on your own.

In deliberate practice, an expert tells you what to improve on and how to do it, and then you do that (while getting feedback).

It's possible to come to powerful techniques through purposeful practice, but it's always a gamble.

Deliberate practice is possible with a map of the domain and a recommended way to move through it. This makes success more likely.

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