
Guide to Deliberate Practice as a Universal Learning Method
Interactive manual for learning any skill using deliberate practice principles.
Researcher, educator, writer and translator.
Dominik is an AI Consultant for Research and Strategy at the AI Competency Centre, University of Oxford. He works on AI in education, builds apps and agent skills, and has worked in computational linguistics since the 1990s.

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Essays, blog posts, papers, translations, and journalism from Czech and English press, browsable by type.
Research on linguistics, metaphor, discourse and AI in education, with full text where the rights allow.
Guides and methods for learning, reading and writing as an academic, starting with the Guide to Deliberate Practice.
Guides, frameworks, handouts and explainers that anyone can use on their own.
Talks, webinars, podcasts and workshops, with dates, recordings and slides.
Courses and workshops on AI, learning technology and language teaching.
What Dominik offers organisations on AI in education and research.
A few things to start with.

Write a talk as an outline, then present it as a single HTML file you can share or publish.
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Highlight Scout searches your reading highlights from Readwise, Zotero, Kindle and CSV or JSON files, by keyword or by meaning, on your own machine.
App detailsA skill for structured review of academic papers, with templates and scoring rubrics you can adapt.
See the skill on GitHubOne set of instructions kept in sync across machines and AI coding tools.
See them on GitHubA workshop for Ministry of Justice staff, January 2025, on how metaphors help and mislead when we talk about AI.
ConsultingAgent Skills and the Semantic Powers of LLMs, in the Schemas & Propositions newsletter.
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Interactive manual for learning any skill using deliberate practice principles.

Guide to vibecoding for educators: build apps to explain difficult concepts.

Interactive guide and AI-powered toolkit for deliberate language practice.

Guide to creating accessible, easy-to-process documents and presentations.


Interactive companion to the Schemas & Propositions post on LLM skills.

Outline-first desktop app for writing talks and presenting them as self-contained HTML decks.
Markdown writing app for long pieces, organised into Folios, where an AI agent proposes edits and you accept them.

Searches your reading highlights from Readwise, Zotero, Kindle and CSV or JSON files, by keyword or by meaning, locally.
Mac app that gathers the requests your coding agents send you (checks, design reviews, questions) in one inbox.
Zotero extension that summarises PDFs with an LLM and stores the summaries as Zotero notes.
Interactive timeline and video archive of historical views of computing from 1946 to 1983, curated with AI.
One set of instructions kept in sync across machines and AI coding tools.
Checks and improves the readability of documents, presentations and web content.
Structured review of academic papers, with templates and scoring rubrics you can adapt.
Sets up and runs a local corpus-linguistics toolchain for building, annotating and searching corpora.
A monthly roundup of AI news, with an RSS feed.
Corrects common misconceptions about language-model architecture, memory, capabilities, training and tool use.
How Agent Skills combine model judgement with reusable instructions, files and scripts for reliable workflows within context limits.
From chatbots to agents and the shifting frontier of generative AI, three years after ChatGPT's release.
Argues that humans and language models work through meaning-rich schemas, not the formal symbol manipulation computers perform.
Uses Winograd-style examples to show that propositions depend on contextual schemas that rules and facts cannot exhaustively capture.
On the role of skill in the age of AI.
Proposes five sociolinguistic principles for general education and argues against grammar-centred language teaching.
Webinar on transforming learning and teaching through making tools.
Talk at Oxford on what learning and teaching will look like in the age of AI.
Webinar on the move from chatbots to agents and other trends on the frontier of generative AI.
Talk at The Hub on context and meaning in large language models.
Podcast conversation on whether AI will change education.
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A catalogue of the public agent skills, searchable by task, with learning paths and install steps.
For talks, workshops and consulting, see Consulting. More ways to get in touch are on the contact page.
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