Breaking a task into smaller steps can make it harder by hiding the dependency

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Mise en place is really a claim about which steps can be done out of order Atul Gawande's surgical checklist worked because it was dumb on purpose Why step-by-step instructions fail exactly where the expert wrote them A workflow that nobody can explain is usually a sequence that outlived its reason Pair programming transfers know-how by watching and doing; the style guide handles only what is writable Muscle memory is a misnomer — the memory sits in your basal ganglia and that is why explaining how you ride a bike is so hard The typist who hits 90 words a minute but cannot name the keys under their fingers: procedural knowledge runs without narration Semantic memory fades fast: facts crammed for the exam evaporate within months while you never forget how to swim You can ace the driving theory test and still fail the road test — declarative knowledge doesn't transfer into skill on its own Only declarative knowledge can be 'wrong' — you cannot be wrong about how to ride a bike; just bad at it